Dictionary

consecution en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌkɒnsɪˈkjuːʃən/

Etymology

From Middle English consecucioun (“attainment”), from Latin cōnsecūtiō (“effect, proper sequence, attainment”), from past participle of cōnsequor (“to follow, result, reach”).

Meanings

1. (archaic, countable, uncountable) A following, or sequel; actual or logical dependence.
   • Some consecutions are so intimately and evidently connexed to or found in the premises, that the conclusion is attained, and without any thing of ratiocinative progress a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A succession or series of any kind.
   • 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 1664, Isaac Newton, edited by David Brewster, Memoirs of the life, writings and discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, volume 1, published 1855, page 159:
3. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Sequence.
4. (countable, uncountable) The relation of consequent to antecedent.
5. (countable, uncountable) A succession of similar intervals in harmony.

Forms

Relateds

consecutive · month of consecution

Synonyms

sequence

Translations (3)

oc consecucion ((logic) relation of consequent to antecedent) · fr consécution ((logic) relation of consequent to antecedent) · es consecución ((logic) relation of consequent to antecedent)