conseˈquentially, adv.
[f. as prec. + -ly2.]
† 1. In the sequel, subsequently; = consequently 1. Obs.
| 1607 S. Collins Serm. (1608) 4 Not onely that which is originally good, but euen that which is consequentially sound. 1672 Owen Evang. Love 58 Neither antecedently nor consequentially unto such their Conjunction, do they consider what is their duty. |
† 2. As a consequence or result; = consequently 2. Obs.
| 1656 [J. Sergeant] tr. T. White's Peripatet. Inst. 45 Consequentially to these positions, Every movable that is reduc'd from rest to motion..increases in velocity. 1664 Power Exp. Philos. ii. 104 It consequentially follows, that, etc. a 1716 South 12 Serm. (1744) XI. 119 He that is above a prince is consequentially above all his subjects. 1778 Burke Corr. (1844) II. 248 This must be, consequentially, of the greatest service to him. |
3. Merely as a consequence, in a secondary way, indirectly.
| 1652 Gaule Magastrom. 215 There may be some reall effect upon the patient indirectly and consequentially..although there be none such primarily and directly. 1694 Phil. Trans. XVIII. 258 Of some Rods you cannot make a fixt South primarily, yet you may consequentially. 1792 Burke Pres. State Affairs Wks. VII. 107 The king of Prussia has no direct and immediate concern with France; consequentially, to be sure, a great deal. 1884 Law Rep. 13 Q. Bench Div. 672 The property must be..directly, and not merely consequentially, affected by the decision. |
† 4. With logical sequence or consistency; with consecution of thought; = consequently 3. ? Obs.
| 1710 Addison Whig Exam. No. 4 ¶9 He means something, but has not the faculty of writing consequentially. 1748 Chesterfield Lett. II. clxi. 81, I never knew in my life one [woman]..who reasoned or acted consequentially for four-and-twenty hours together. 1812 Q. Rev. VIII. 61 If the author reasons consequentially. |
5. In a consequential or self-important manner; with an air or assumption of importance.
| 1788 J. O'Keeffe Prisoner at Large ii. iv, With great haste and very consequentially he moves the furniture. 1826 Scott Woodst. x, I, Nehemiah Holdenough (he added consequentially) was forcibly expelled from my own pulpit. 1847 Mrs. A. Kerr Hist. Servia 159 He was handsomely attired and armed, and paced the street somewhat consequentially; the Turkish populace resented his insolent bearing. |