Consecution
Origin
Middle English consecucioun ("attainment"), from Latin consecutio ("effect, proper sequence, attainment"), from past participle of consequor ("to follow, result, reach")
Full definition of consecution
Noun
consecution
(plural consecutions)- (archaic) A following, or sequel; actual or logical dependence.
- (obsolete) A succession or series of any kind.
- 1664, Isaac Newton, Memoirs of the life, writings and discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton, 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.
Usage notes
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.