Word Meanings - CONSEQUENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Following by necessary inference or rational deduction; as, a proposition consequent to other propositions. Consequent points, Consequent poles , a number of poles distributed under certain conditions, along the axis of a magnetized steel bar,

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Following by necessary inference or rational deduction; as, a proposition consequent to other propositions. Consequent points, Consequent poles , a number of poles distributed under certain conditions, along the axis of a magnetized steel bar, which regularly has but the two poles at the extremities. (more info) follow; con- + sequi to follow: cf. F. conséquent. See Second, and 1. Following as a result, inference, or natural effect. The right was consequent to, and built on, an act perfectly personal. Locke.

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• UNDERSECRETARY
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• UNDERPLOT
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• UNDERSOIL
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• UNDERNIME
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• UNDERCREST
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