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Webster 1913 Edition
Consecution
1.
A following, or sequel; actual or logical dependence.
Sir M. Hale.
2.
A succession or series of any kind.
[Obs.]
Sir I. Newton.
Month of consecution
(Astron.)
, a month as reckoned from one conjunction of the moon with the sun to another.
Webster 1828 Edition
Consecution
CONSECUTION
,Noun.
1.
A following or sequel; train of consequences from premises; series of deductions.2.
Succession; series of things that follow each other; as a consecution of colors.3.
In astronomy, consecution month is the space between one conjunction of the moon with the sun and another.Definition 2024
consecution
consecution
English
Noun
consecution (plural consecutions)
- (archaic) A following, or sequel; actual or logical dependence.
- (obsolete) A succession or series of any kind.
- 1664, Isaac Newton, David Brewster, editor, Memoirs of the life, writings and discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, published 1855, page 159:
- there shall be generated such a consecution of colours, whose order, from the thin end towards the thick, shall be yellow, red, purple, blue, green, and these so often repeated
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- (archaic) sequence
- (logic) The relation of consequent to antecedent.
Usage notes
- This word is used in logic, linguistics and computing to refer to the relation of a consequent to an antecedent.
- Its other senses are obsolete. Use of the word today in those senses is generally an error made by non-native speakers: words like "consequence" and "sequence" are more likely to be understood.
Related terms
Translations
sequel — see sequel
succession — see succession
sequence — see sequence
(logic) relation of consequent to antecedent
References
- consecution in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- consecution in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911