adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.]
† 1. In the way of something that follows as a consequence; by consequence. Obs.
1644. Bp. Maxwell, Prerog. Chr. Kings, i. 16. This is done by the Pope … not effectively but consecutively. Ibid., xvi. 158. The good and benefit of the servant is but secondary and consecutively intended.
1727–51. Chambers, Cycl., Consecutively, in the school-philosophy, is sometimes used in opposition to antecedently, and sometimes to effectively, or causally. Thus … the corruption of one thing is the generation of another, not effectively, but consecutively.
† 2. As a result, in consequence. Obs.
a. 1691. Boyle, Wks. (1772), IV. 751 (R.). Having … exposed some serum of human blood to cold air, consecutively, the serum was not found to congeal.
3. In continuous succession, continuously.
1847. Craig, Consecutively, in succession; following regularly.
1853. Dickens, Lett. (1880), I. 320. We had thirty-one hours consecutively on the road.
1878. Bosw. Smith, Carthage, 12. That part of her history, which alone we can trace consecutively.
