資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Consequent \Con"se*quent\, a. [L. consequens, -entis, p. pr. of
   consequi to follow; con- + sequi to follow: cf. F.
   cons['e]quent. See {Second}, and cf. {Consecution}.]
   1. Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.

            The right was consequent to, and built on, an act
            perfectly personal.                   --Locke.

   2. (Logic) Following by necessary inference or rational
      deduction; as, a proposition consequent to other
      propositions.

   {Consequent points}, {Consequent poles} (Magnetism), a number
      of poles distributed under certain conditions, along the
      axis of a magnetized steel bar, which regularly has but
      the two poles at the extremities.