adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.]
† 1. In the sequel, subsequently; CONSEQUENTLY 1. Obs.
1607. S. Collins, Serm. (1608), 4. Not onely that which is originally good, but euen that which is consequentially sound.
1672. Owen, Evang. Love, 58. Neither antecedently nor consequentially unto such their Conjunction, do they consider what is their duty.
† 2. As a consequence or result; = CONSEQUENTLY 2. Obs.
1656. [J. Sergeant], trans. T. White’s Peripatet. Inst., 45. Consequentially to these positions, Every movable that is reduc’d from rest to motion … increases in velocity.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., II. 104. It consequentially follows, that [etc.].
a. 1716. South, 12 Serm. (1744), XI. 119. He that is above a prince is consequentially above all his subjects.
1778. Burke, Corr. (1844), II. 248. This must be, consequentially, of the greatest service to him.
3. Merely as a consequence, in a secondary way, indirectly.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 215. There may be some reall effect upon the patient indirectly and consequentially … although there be none such primarily and directly.
1694. Phil. Trans., XVIII. 258. Of some Rods you cannot make a fixt South primarily, yet you may consequentially.
1792. Burke, Pres. State Affairs, Wks. VII. 107. The king of Prussia has no direct and immediate concern with France; consequentially, to be sure, a great deal.
1884. Law Rep., 13 Q. Bench Div. 672. The property must be … directly, and not merely consequentially, affected by the decision.
† 4. With logical sequence or consistency; with consecution of thought; = CONSEQUENTLY 3. ? Obs.
1710. Addison, Whig Exam., No. 4, ¶ 9. He means something, but has not the faculty of writing consequentially.
1748. Chesterf., Lett., II. clxi. 81. I never knew in my life one [woman] … who reasoned or acted consequentially for four-and-twenty hours together.
1812. Q. Rev., VIII. 61. If the author reasons consequentially.
5. In a consequential or self-important manner; with an air or assumption of importance.
1788. J. O’Keeffe, Prisoner at large, II. iv. With great haste and very consequentially he moves the furniture.
1826. Scott, Woodst., x. I, Nehemiah Holdenough (he added consequentially) was forcibly expelled from my own pulpit.
1847. Mrs. A. Kerr, Hist. Servia, 159. He was handsomely attired and armed, and paced the street somewhat consequentially; the Turkish populace resented his insolent bearing.
