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& s. [Fr. consécut if (m.), consécutive (f.); Sp., Port. & Ital. consecutivo, from Lat. consecutus, pa. par. of consequor =to follow after: con together, and sequor = to follow.] A. As adj .: Following, succe ive, uninterrupted, without interval or break. 1. Standing alone: "In the structure and order of the poem, not only the."-Johnson: greater parts are properly consecutive, Life Black more. consent con-sen-ěs'-çençe, *con-sen-esc-en-çỹ, s . [Lat. con senes cens , pr. par. of consenesco to grow old together: con cum =with, together; senesco = to grow old; senex =an old man.] A growing old, a decay from old age. "It will not be ami a little to consider the old argument for the world's di olution, and that is, its daily consenescence and decay."-Ray: Three Discourses, ch. v., § 1. con-sense, kun-scence, s. [Lat.consensus.] 1. Consciousne , inward perception. 2. Consent. "Mid kunscence of heorte."- Ancren Riwle , p. 228. con-sen-sion, s. [Lat. consensio, from con = cum with, together, and sensio a feeling; sentio = to feel.] A feeling together, or in sympathy; agree IMG:content-0657.png:[blocks in formation] 1. The state of being of one mind or feeling with another; agreement or sympathy in feeling or thought. "The fighting winds would stop there and admire, Learning consent and concord from his lyre." Cowley: Davideis. *2. A connection, a tie, intercourse. "What consent to the temple of God with mawmet is?" -Wycliffe : 2 Cor . vi. 16. 3. Voluntary compliance or agreement with any person or thing; concurrence, acquiescence. "The generous Greeks their joint consent declare, The priest to reverence, and release the fair." Pope: Homer's Iliad , bk. i., 1. 490-1. *4. A tendency, inclination, or joint operation toward one point or object. "From union, order, full consent of things." Pope: E ay on Man, iii., 296. *5. A correspondence, coherence, or agreement of parts or qualities. "Whose power hath a true consent With planet or with element." *6. Advice, voice, counsel. IMG:content-0658.png:[blocks in formation] cration may be resolved into two elements: (1) the a man, consecutive to volition."-Locke. dedication of persons or things to the service of God with appropriate ceremonies, (2) the formal declaration that in consequence of belonging to God they are now sacred; for, as South well remarks, we must know that consecration makes not a place sacred, but only solemnly declares it so; the gift of the owner to God makes it God's, and consequently sacred." The term is used (1) Of persons: (a) Spec.: Of the consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons. In the Church of England Liturgy one of the headings is, "The form and manner of making, ordaining and consecrating of Bishops, Priests and Deacons;" and the thirty-sixth of the Thirty-nine Articles is entitled, "Of consecrating of Ministers.' The other Protestant churches have various order of procedure in the consecration or ordination of ministers. (b) ( In the Church of Rome): The canonization of a saint. (2) Of things : It is used specially of the conse churches. It was not B. As substantive: mon to them both; and thus the stone in the bladder, by vellicating the fibers there, will affect and draw them so into spasms, as to affect the bowels IMG:content-0659.png:[blocks in formation] had existed for some little time till christ i a nid -ne . The quality or state of being consecutive ings were erected for Divine worship, ordinary i. e, of following after something else. (Used rooms at first being used for the meetings of the chiefly of argument.) faithful (Acts i. 13). When separate churches were còn-sem-in-āte, v. t. [Lat. con semi nat us, pa. built, some simple rite of consecration was almost par, of con semi no = to sow together: con = cum = sure to follow at once; the ceremonies gradually with, together, and semi no =to sow; semen (gen it. became more numerous and striking, till, when seminis ) =a seed.] To sow different seeds together. Const an tine established Christianity, they became ( Bailey .) ous threads, and cause a colic; and extend their twitches sometimes to the stomach, and occasion vomitings. (Quincy.) With one consent: Unanimously, with one accord. *consent-rule, s . Law : A legal instrument in which a defendant in an action for ejectment stated why he defended, and confe ed to the fictitious lease, entry and ouster, as well as to the being in po e ion. ( Wharton .) IMG:content-0660.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] IMG:content-0661.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0662.png:[blocks in formation] "The place of the perihelion of a planet's orbit is of little consequence to its well-being Astronomy, 5th ed. (1858), p. 701. 2. Rank, consideration, importance. "Beware of too sublime a sense 3. Pride, conceit, vanity. B. Technically : 1. A deduction, a conclusion, an inference drawn from preceding propositions. "This once believed, 'twere logic misapplied To prove a consequence by none denied." 2. The last proposition of a syllogism. "Can syllogism set things right? No, majors soon with minors fight: Or, both in friendly consort join'd, (1) By consequence: Consequently, as a neces- sary result or effect. (2) In consequence of : By reason of, through. " In consequence of which, your welcome boon Did not arrive till yesterday at noon." *con'-se-quence, v. i . [CONSEQUENCE, s .] Το draw inferences or conclusions. a methodical and school-like way of defining ."-Milton: Tetrachord on. and consequencing, *con-se-quence-le , a. [Eng. consequence; -le .] Without results or effect. "This is no slight, no consequence le evil."-Ruskin: Lamps, ch. vi., § 3. Prov. conséquent ; Sp. consecuent; Port. & Ital. consequente, all from Lat. consequens (gen it. conse- quentis), pr. par. of consequor to follow.] A. As adjective : Logic & Ord . Lang .: Following as a natural or as a logical sequence from. †(1) Followed by to . the right was consequent to, and built on, an act perfectly personal."- Locke . (2) Followed by on or upon . agriculture, a pursuit from which they have been gradually driven by the vexations consequent on their strange scruple about paying tithe."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. iv. IMG:content-0663.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0664.png:[blocks in formation] conservancy