Consequently

adv. [f. CONSEQUENT a. + -LY².]

  † 1.  In following time or order; consecutively, subsequently. Obs.

1475.  Caxton, Jason, 51. Whan he hadde made his orisons by grete deuocion, and consequently his demande.

1513.  Bradshaw, St. Werburge, I. 1508. The quene hym folowed as is the custome, Werburge succeded them consequently.

1596.  Lodge, Marg. Amer., 114. This other … he wrote, which for that cause I place here consequentlie.

1602.  Fulbecke, 1st Pt. Parall., 84. Wee will … now pass to the title consequently ensuing.

1609.  Skene, Reg. Maj., 22. Consequentlie it followes, to treate of the question of the estate of men.

  † b.  In sequence; on in succession. Obs.

1558.  Warde, trans. Alexis’ Secr., I. VI. (1580), 114 b. Vpon this salte you shall laie likewise a ranke of the saied peeces of siluer, and then an other of salte, and an other of siluer, and so consequentely as long as your siluer lasteth. Ibid., 103 a.

1591.  F. Sparry, trans. Cattan’s Geomancie, 190. Giue one to the first, one to the second, one to the third, and so conscquently vnto all the others.

  2.  As a consequence or result; by way of consequence; in consequence of something previous; often a quasi-conj., like therefore, accordingly.

[1483.  Act 1 Rich. III., c. 8 Pream. Whereupon … of werry likelyhode consequently shall ensue the Destruction of Drapery of all this your seid Realm.]

a. 1533.  Frith, Disput. Purgatory (1829), 130. Then must it needs follow that he hath power to do against his truth, and, consequently, he hath power to be false.

1660.  Jer. Taylor, Duct. Dubit., I. i. Rule ii. § 2. Whatsoever comes into their conscience primarily or consequently.

1664.  Evelyn, Kal. Hort. (1729), 206. The Moisture ascending, will be suck’d through the very Bark, and consequently nourish … the Tree.

1712.  Steele, Spect., No. 143, ¶ 5. Fortunatus is stocked with Ignorance, and consequently with Self-Opinion.

1880.  Geikie, Phys. Geog., iv. 301. Most substances suffer contraction from cold, and consequently increase in density.

  † 3.  With proper sequence or connection (of thought, reasoning, etc.); consistently. Obs.

1538.  Starkey, England, I. i. 16. Ther [is] a certayn vertue and honesty consequently annexyd to the same law.

1642.  Jer. Taylor, Episc. (1647), 203. This makes him speak conformably to his first assertions, and consequently to his arguments.

1798.  W. Taylor, in Monthly Rev., XXV. 161. He is one of those who reason, as the French say, consequently from assumed and unproved principles.