Middle English Dictionary Entry
consequent n.
Entry Info
| Forms | consequent n. |
| Etymology | OF, & L ppl. as n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The effect or result (as of an act or state); an aftereffect; a result taken as a precedent [quot.: 1472]; (b) bi (the) ~, as a result, consequently.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mel.(Manly-Rickert)B.2578 : The vengeance..is the consequent, and ther of folweth another vengeance.
- c1460(?c1400) Beryn (Nthld 55)2230 : Consequent comyth aftir sekenes.
- (1472) RParl.6.64a : This Bille is grauntid as it is desired, so that he accompt duely by his Othe, and that it be not taken for a consequent hereafter.
b
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)46b/b : It makeþ a feuer rauynge and swownynge & by consequent [OF par consequent] it sleeþ.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)145/16 : I had no faste purpos in gudnes & so, be þe consequent, I had no perfite contricion & þerfor I am dampned.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)93/14 : It ys his rightwys Iuge and, by þe consequent, þe beynge of ryght.
2.
That which follows logically from a premise, a conclusion or inference; seuen ~, to draw an inference; escheuen ~, avoid a conclusion.
Associated quotations
- ?c1400 Chaucer Bo.(Add 10340)3.pr.9.2323 : Þan folweþ it..þat we adden clernesse of renoun..and þis is a consequente.
- a1425 Wycl.Serm.(Bod 788)2.41 : Þes foolis knewen not þat þis sueþ al oonli whanne antesedent and consequent ben convertiblis in kynde.
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.240 : If..any oþer þing purposed is Whiche þat of verrey resoun will not sewe, Wherby þou myght þis consequent eschewe [etc.].
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.244 : Lo of þis sentence seweþ consequent, Than are þe hadde in most despitous peyne.
- (c1456) Pecock Faith (Trin-C B.14.45)275 : Hou ever it be of the conclusioun or of the consequent of the argument.
- c1475-a1600(a1473) Fortescue Declaration (Clermont)534 : The consequent, yf it might be callede a consequent, is not necessarie.
- c1475-a1600(a1473) Fortescue Declaration (Clermont)536 : Sithen the minor of the forsaid argument is proved impossible, and tharfor vntrue, the conclucion, called the consequent, is not necessarye, and therfor not good by logyke.
3.
Pl. ?The back matter of a book.
Associated quotations
- 1448 *Glo.Chron.C (Arms 58:Kooper)f.1v : Thys boke with hys antecedens and consequens was ful ended the vj day offe Augustus the ȝere of Oure Lorde a Ml CCCC xlviij.