consectary

English

Etymology

From Latin cōnsectārius.

Noun

consectary (plural consectaries)

  1. That which follows by consequence or is logically deducible.
  2. Deduction from premises; a corollary.
    • 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
      His tautology also of indissoluble and individual is not to be imitated ; especially since neither indissoluble nor individual hath aught to do in the exact definition, being but a consectary flowing from thence
  3. (rare, chiefly archaic) A conclusion of any kind.

Adjective

consectary (not comparable)

  1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) Following by consequence; consequent; deducible.
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
      Consectary impieties.
    • 1620-1677, The complete works of Thomas Manton (ed. by William Harris, J. C. Ryle)
      Rom. viii. 8. This verse is consectary from the whole discourse, […]
    • 1901 November 7th, Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, volume 93, issue 2409, page 429:
      The story of Paul Morton, one of the youngest railroad men of this country, is consectary of the foregoing.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “consectary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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