consecution

Etymology

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

noun

  1. (archaic) A following, or sequel; actual or logical dependence.
  2. (obsolete) 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) Sequence.
  4. (logic) The relation of consequent to antecedent.
  5. (music) A succession of similar intervals in harmony.

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