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CONSEQUENT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Occurring with or following as a consequence
Example:
collateral target damage from a bombing run
Synonyms:
accompanying; attendant; collateral; concomitant; consequent; ensuant; incidental; resultant; sequent
Classified under:
Similar:
subsequent (following in time or order)
Derivation:
consequence (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon)
Context examples:
Around the year 2250, some of these solid Earth processes started to offset the melting of the ice sheet and the consequent sea level rise.
(Antarctica's Effect on Sea Level Rise in Coming Centuries, NASA)
Binding results in the inhibition of the transpeptidase enzymes, thereby preventing cross-linking of the pentaglycine bridge with the fourth residue of the pentapeptide and interrupting consequent synthesis of peptidoglycan chains.
(Cefdinir, NCI Thesaurus)
A certain mysterious feeling, consequent on the darkness, the secrecy of the revel, and the whisper in which everything was said, steals over me again, and I listen to all they tell me with a vague feeling of solemnity and awe, which makes me glad that they are all so near, and frightens me (though I feign to laugh) when Traddles pretends to see a ghost in the corner.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Excessively; but what with the natural advantages of the ground, which pointed out, even to a very young eye, what little remained to be done, and my own consequent resolutions, I had not been of age three months before Everingham was all that it is now.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
And though the consequent shock and alarm was very great and much more durable—indeed I believe it was half an hour before any of us were comfortable again—yet that was too general a sensation for any thing of peculiar anxiety to be observable.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Having thus, amid a general titter, played very prettily with his interrupter, the lecturer went back to his picture of the past, the drying of the seas, the emergence of the sand-bank, the sluggish, viscous life which lay upon their margins, the overcrowded lagoons, the tendency of the sea creatures to take refuge upon the mud-flats, the abundance of food awaiting them, their consequent enormous growth.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Spare us the enumeration! Au reste, we all know them: danger of bad example to innocence of childhood; distractions and consequent neglect of duty on the part of the attached—mutual alliance and reliance; confidence thence resulting—insolence accompanying—mutiny and general blow-up.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The tediousness of a two hours' wait at Petty France, in which there was nothing to be done but to eat without being hungry, and loiter about without anything to see, next followed—and her admiration of the style in which they travelled, of the fashionable chaise and four—postilions handsomely liveried, rising so regularly in their stirrups, and numerous outriders properly mounted, sunk a little under this consequent inconvenience.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I was seized by the consequent panic, and went over the side in a surge of bodies.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Nevertheless, at table, the inevitable reaction and exhaustion consequent upon the hard day seized hold of him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
