Obs. Also -cie, -tie. [ad. L. consequentia: see CONSEQUENCE and -ENCY.]

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  1.  = CONSEQUENCE 2, 2 b, 3 b, CONSEQUENTNESS.

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1548.  R. Hutten, Sum of Diuinitie, C ij a. Necessitye of consequentie, as Ierusalem must be destroied.

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1553.  Bale, Gardiner’s Serm. Obed., F iij. For what is the consequency?… Christ wolde haue Petre to be aboue Princes … Ergo he wolde haue the bishop of Rome to be so to.

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1559.  Morwyng, Evonym., 179. As both the consequency of the text and also the maner of the medicins do requyre.

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1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., I. iv. 16. A fallacious illation in reference unto antecedencie or consequencie.

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  2.  = CONSEQUENCE 1, 3.

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1651.  Biggs, New Disp., Pref. 13. Consequencies from your laudable endeavours.

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a. 1718.  Penn, Life, Wks. 1726, I. 167. Our Enemies have charged their oblique Consequencies from our Principles back upon us for our very Principles.

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