consecution

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From Middle English consecucioun (“attainment”), from Latin cōnsecūtiō (“effect, proper sequence, attainment”), from past participle of cōnsequor (“to follow, result, reach”).

consecution (countable and uncountable, plural consecutions)

(archaic) A following, or sequel; actual or logical dependence.
- a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
  Some consecutions are so intimately and evidently connexed to or found in the premises, that the conclusion is attained, and without any thing of ratiocinative progress
(obsolete) A succession or series of any kind.
- 1664, Isaac Newton, edited by David Brewster, Memoirs of the life, writings and discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton‎^[1], volume 1, published 1855, page 159:
  there shall be generated such a consecution of colours, whose order, from the thin end towards the thick, shall be yellow, red, purple, blue, green, and these so often repeated
(archaic) Sequence.
(logic) The relation of consequent to antecedent.
(music) A succession of similar intervals in harmony.

This word is used in logic, linguistics and computing to refer to the relation of a consequent to an antecedent.
Its other senses are obsolete. Use of the word today in those senses is generally an error made by non-native speakers: words like "consequence" and "sequence" are more likely to be understood.

sequel — see sequel

succession — see succession

sequence — see sequence

(logic) relation of consequent to antecedent