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Following; succeeding; in continuance. What to this was sequent Thou knowest already. Shak.

Succeeding or following in order. -- Se*quen"tial*ly, adv.

Following as a result, inference, or natural effect. The right was consequent to, and built on, an act perfectly personal. Locke.

, result, or logical inference; consequenment. All that is revealed in Scripture has a consequential necessity of being believed . . . because it is of divine authority. Locke. These kind of arguments . . . are highly consequential and concludent to my purpose. Sir M. Hale.

tion of consequence; with right connection of ideas; logically. The faculty of writing consequentially. Addison.

The quality of being consequential.

By consequence; by natural or logical sequence or connection.

by logical method; illogical; arbitrary; inconsistent; of no consequence. Loose and inconsequent conjectures. Sir T. Browne.

Not regularly following from the premises; hence, irrelevant; unimportant; of no consequence. Chesterfield. -- In*con`se*quen"tial*ly, adv.

The state of being inconsequential.

Inconsequence.

Obedient; submissive; obsequious. [Obs.] Fotherby.

Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely; as, subsequent events; subsequent ages or years; a period long subsequent to the foundation of Rome.

At a later time; afterwards.

Inconsequential. Johnson.

bstract name" to all names which are the result of abstraction and generalization, and consequently to all general names, instead of confining it to the names of attributes. J. S. Mill.

In natural sequence; consequently; so.

Conjoined; attending; consequent. Though that my death were adjunct to my act. Shak. Adjunct notes (Mus.), short notes between those essential to the harmony; auxiliary notes; passing notes.

Next; later in time; subsequent; succeeding; as, an after period of life. Marshall.

An unexpected subsequent event; something disagreeable happening after an affair is supposed to be at an end. Spenser.