Word Finder - consequence

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That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause.

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A result of actions, especially if such a result is unwanted or unpleasant.

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I'm warning you. If you don't get me the report on time, there will be consequences.

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A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference.

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Chain of causes and effects; consecution.

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Importance with respect to what comes after.

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The power to influence or produce an effect.

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(especially when preceded by "of") Importance, value, or influence.

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To threaten or punish (a child, etc.) with specific consequences for misbehaviour.

It was a consequence of her sin.

In consequence her mind is not only vigorous, but it is pure.

Every second is of consequence.

The only river of any consequence in the north-western division flows for 200m.

I've gone two days without serious consequence.

In consequence the army organized a systematic opposition, and elected representatives styled Agitators or Agents to urge their claims.

In consequence of this discovery his whole manner of life, all his relations with old friends, all his plans for his future, were completely altered.

Even you are not allowed to so without some sort of consequence.

His first efforts were directed to securing a virtuous and wellinstructed clergy, with its consequence of a people worthy of their pastors.

The other cereals, millet and panico sorgo (Panicum italicum), have lost much of their importance in consequence of the introduction of maize and rice.

The direct consequence of the failure was the annihilation of political nationality.

They exist not merely as logical consequence or development of the absolute, but have a stubbornness of being in them, an antagonistic feature which in all times philosophers have been driven to recognize, and which they have described in varied fashion.

In consequence the special sciences and the wisdom of common life entangle themselves easily and frequently in contradictions.

The rotation of the planets on their axes is also explained as a consequence of the nebular theory, for at the time of the first formation of the planet it must have participated in the rotation of the whole nebula, and by the subsequent contraction of the planet the speed with which the rotation was performed must have been accelerated.

In 1564 he entered Christ's College, Cambridge, where, after a short time, he formally adopted the reformed doctrines and was in consequence disinherited by his father.

Another Addition Of Eleven Gives Thirty Three For The Epact Of The Fourth Year; But In Consequence Of The Insertion Of The Intercalary Month In Each Third Year Of The Lunar Cycle, This Epact Is Reduced To Three.

And as a further consequence individual freedom is strongly asserted.

A further consequence directly followed from the limitation as to sanctuary, viz.

In consequence of the decision of the Labour party to terminate its support of the Coalition Government he resigned office in Nov.

Certain extremely aberrant Diptera, which, in consequence of the adoption of a parasitic mode of life, have undergone great structural modification, are further remarkable for their peculiar mode of reproduction, on account of which the families composing the group are often termed Pupipara.

When in March 1911 the latter resigned in consequence of the hostile vote of the Radicals and the resignation of its two Radical members, Giolitti was again called upon to form a Government (March 3 1).

The siege was raised, more probably in consequence of the death of Antiochus Epiphanes than because Judas had gained any real victory.

Crete, like several other large islands, enjoys immunity from dangerous serpents - a privilege ascribed by popular belief to the intercession of Titus, the companion of St Paul, who according to tradition was the first bishop of the island, and became in consequence its patron saint.

The oyster beds, for which Loch Ryan was once noted, are not cultivated, but the fisheries (white fish and herrings) are still of some consequence.

In consequence, however, of the frequent violence of the southwesterly gales and other causes, the communication ceased in the middle of the 19th century, and the artificial harbour designed by John Rennie has gradually fallen into decay.

Water is scarce and the plain is not much cultivated in consequence.

The consequence of the victory was the submission of the whole territory east of the Sutlej to the British.

As a consequence of this blow to the Seleucid power, the outlying provinces of the empire, recovered by Antiochus, reasserted their independence.

But ultimately the coil becomes ventral or endogastric, in consequence of the second torsion movement then apparent.

This (obviously valid) distinction logically involves the consequence that the object, or content, of knowledge, viz.

This method, which in process of time was dignified by the title of a Physiological Arrangement, was insisted upon with more or less pertinacity by the author throughout a long series of publications, some of them separate books, some of them contributed to the memoirs issued by many scientific bodies of various European countries, ceasing only at his death, which in July 1857 found him occupied upon a Conspectus, Generum Avium, that in consequence remains unfinished.

The Seven Years' War was the immediate consequence and this ended in the cession of the entire North-West to Great Britain.

In 1876, in consequence of unproved accusations of corruption, he resigned.

He became (1649) professor of philosophy and theology at Herborn, but subsequently (1651), in consequence of the jealousy of his colleagues, accepted an invitation to a similar post at Duisburg,, where he died on the 31st of January 1665.

Her children, in consequence of disputes, abandoned her, and her eldest son Charles Louis refused her a home in his restored electorate.

As a consequence of the first half of the name, Atargatis has frequently, though wrongly, been identified with Astarte.

The repeal of the Test Act, the admission of Quakers to Parliament in consequence of their being allowed to affirm instead of taking the oath (1832, when Joseph Pease was elected for South Durham), the establishment of the University of London, and, more recently, the opening of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge to Nonconformists, have all had their effect upon the body.

Dying in 1243, he was succeeded as lord of Connaught by his son Richard, and then (1248) by his younger son Walter, who carried on the family warfare against the native chieftains, and added greatly to his vast domains by obtaining (c. 1255) from Prince Edward a grant of "the county of Ulster," in consequence of which he was styled later earl of Ulster.

Spiders, caterpillars and grasshoppers are, he said, stung in their chief nerve-centres, in consequence of which the victims are not killed outright, but rendered motionless and continue to live in this paralysed condition for several weeks, being thus available as food for the larvae when these are hatched.

The consequence of these further issues was instant depreciation, and the note of Too francs nominal value sank to less than 20 francs coin.

The nigua, the Cuban jigger, is a pest of serious consequence, and the mal de nigua (jigger sickness) sometimes causes the death of lower animals and men.

Such manufactures as are of any consequence are mostly connected with the sugar and tobacco industries.

She was famed for her running, and would only consent to marry a suitor who could outstrip her in a race, the consequence of failure being death.

In consequence of this 560,000 claims were received, and a first examination showed that the aggregate amount reached by these claims was not less than £T13,000,000.

In consequence of the piling up of the exterior public debt as described above, it amounted after the issue of " general debt " in 1875 to £T1 9 o,750,000, and swallowed up annually upwards of Tio,000,000, or nearly half the revenue of the empire as it was then constituted.

Doroshenko now deserted the Turkish alliance for the Russian; in consequence an expedition was sent into the Ukraine which was both costly and useless.

The rulers of the provinces shared these views; the consequence was disquiet and confusion throughout the empire.

A conference held at Constantinople sanctioned the union on terms which were rendered acceptable to the sultan; but Said Pasha, who had assisted the sultan in centralizing at Yildiz Kiosk the administration of the country, and who had become grand vizier, was a strong adherent of the policy of armed intervention by Turkey, and the consequence was his fall from office.

Here the superiority of French mobility, a consequence of their training and not necessarily of their system, showed its value most conclusively.

The consequence was that the French always succeeded in reinforcing their fighting line in time to avert disaster.