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Show G Co'NSEQUENTLY. adw. [from confequent. I fel ThatI muft after thee, with thi7 thy fon Such fatal corfeguence unites us three Miltn's Paradife Loft 6. That which produces confequences; in fluence ; tendency Afferted without any colour of feripture-proof it is of very ill confequence to the fuperfiructing o Hampond good life Importance ; moment The inftruments of darknef ‘Win us with honeft trifles, to betray u Shakefpeare's Macheth In deepeft confequence The ange O c O of Achilles was of fuch confequence that it embroiled the kings of Greece Addifon's Spectator Their people are funk in peverty, ignorance, an cowardice; and of as little confequence as wome Savift and children Co'NSEQUENT. adj. [confequens, Latin, 1. Following by rational deduétion 2. Following as the effe&t of a caufe: wit 1. By confequence ; neceflarily ; inevitably : by the connexion of effects to thei caufes In the moft perfeét poem a perfeét idea was required, and confequently all pocts ought rather t Dryden imitate it The place of the feveral forts of terreftrial matter, fuftained in the fluid, being contingent an uncertain, their intermixture confequently fo 2. In confequence ; purfuantly There is confequently, npon this diftinguifhin principle, an inward fatisfaction or diffatisfactio in the heart of every man, after good or evil. South Co'nsEQUENTNESS. z /. [ from confequent.] Regular connexion of propofi It was not a power poflible to be inherited, becaufe the right was confeguent to, and built on, a aét perfectly perfonal Locke Let them examine the confequentnefs of the whol body of the doétrine I deliver Dighy on the Souly Dedication 3. Sometimes with zpor This fatisfaGion or difatisfaltion, confeguen wpon a man's aéting fuitably or unfuitably to con{cience, is a principle not eafily to be worn out South Co'NSEQUENT. . / 1. Confequence ; that which follows fro previous propofitions by rational deduction Fi Doth it follow that they, being not the peopl of God, are in nothing to be followed ? Thi confequent were good, if only the cuftom of th people of God is to be obferved Hooker- 2. Effect; that which follow caufe an allin They were ill paid ; and they were ill governed, which 1s always a confeguent of ill payment Dawies on Ireland He could fee confeguents yet dormant in thei South principles, and effets yet unborn CoNSEQUE'NTIAL. adj. [from confequent. 1. Produced by the neceflfary concatenation of effeéts to caufes ‘We fometimes wrangle, when we thould debate A confequential ill which freedom draws A bad effet, but from a noble caufe Prior to keep. adj. [from conferwo, Lat Capable of being kept, o maintained. ConNsE'RVANCY conferwans [fro #. / Lat.] Courts held by the Lord Mayo of London, for the prefervation of th fithery on the river Thames, are calle Courts of Conferwancy ConsErVA'TION. 2. f. [conferwatis, Lat. 1. The a& of preferving ; care to kee from perifhing ; continuance ; protection Though there do indeed happen fome alteration in the globe, yet they are fuch as tend rather t the benefit and conferwation of the earth, and it produétions, than to the diforder and deftruétio of both Woodward's Natural Hiftory 2. Prefervation from corruption It is an enquiry of excellent ufe, te enquire o the means of preventing or flaying of putrefadtion for therein confifteth the means of confervation o bodies Bacon's Natural Hiftory CoNSE'RVATIVE, adj. [from confervo, Latin.] Having the power of oppofin diminution or injury The fpherical figure, as to all heavenly bodies fo it agreeth to light, as the moft perfeét and confervative of all others Peacham /£ [Latin.] Preferver 2. Having the confequences juitly conneét- | Conserva'ror one that has the care or office of keepin ed with the premifes ; conclufive Though thefe kind of arguments may feem ob{cure; yet upo a du confideratio of them they are highly confequential and concludent to m purpofe Bale's Origin of Mankind ONSEQUE'NTIALLY adv [from confe quential. 1. With juft deduion of confequences with right connexioo n ideas No body writes a book without meaning fomething, though he may not have the faculty o writing confequentially, and exprefling his meaning Addifon's Whig Exanminer 2. By confequence ; no eventually immediately This relation is fo neceflary, that God himfel cannot difcharge a rational creature from it; although confegucntially indeed he may do fo, by th annihilation of fuch creatures 3. In a regular feries South Were a man 2 king in his dréams, and a begga awake, and dreamt confequentially, and in continue unbroken fchemes, would he be in reality a kin or a beggar Addifon ConsEQuE'NTIALNESS. ./. [from conJequential,] Regnlar confecution of difcourfe any thing fro or extinétion detriment diminution Forsthat you declare that you have many fic amongft you, he was warned by the confervator o the city, that he fhould keep at a diftance Bacon's New Atlantis The lords of the fecret council were likewif made confervators of the peace of the two kingdoms, during the intervals of panliament. Clarend Such individuals as are the fingle confervators o their own fpecies Hale's Origin of Mankind ConseE‘RVATORY. 7. /. [from. conferwo Lat.] A place where any thing is kep in a manner proper to its peculiar nature as, fifh in a ponrd, corni Having a prefer vative quality Diét 7o CONSERVE. @. a. [confervo, Latin. 1. To preferve without lofs or detriment Nothing was loft out of thefe {tores, fince th art of conferving what others have gained in knowledge is eafy Temple They (will be able te conferve their propertie unchanged in paffing through feveral mediums which is another condition of the rays of light Neawton's Opticks 2. To candy or pickle fruit Conse'RVE. 7. /. [from the verb. 1. A fiveetmeat made of the infpiflate juices of fruit, boiled with fugar til they will harden and candy tafte of thefe con Will 's pleafe your honour Shakefpeare Jerwes tions ; confecution of difcourfe CoNSE'RVABLE 20 with each other ar Woodward Covse'rvaTorY. adj a gra nary A conferwatory of fnow and ice, fuch as they uf for delicacy to cool wine in fummers { Bacon''s Narural Hiffory You may fet your tender trees and plants, wit the windows and doors of the greenhoufes an conferwatories open, for eight or ten days befor April Ewelyn's Kalendar The water difpenfed to the earth and atmefpher by the great abyfsy that fubterranean confervatory is by that means reftored back Weodward's Natural Hiffory The fetions candie mons Th have in Turky and the Eaft certain con which they call fervets, which are like t conferwes, and are made of fugar and leBacor's Natural Hiftory more coft they were at, and the mor fweets they beftowed upo them, the more thei : Dennis conferves frunk z. A confervatory or place in which an thing is kept. This fenfe is unufual Tuberofes will not endure the wet of this fea fon; therefore fet the pots into your conferve, an Edelyn's Kalendar keep them dry Cowse RVER. . /. [from conferve. 1. A layer up; a repofiter ; one tha preferves any thing from lofs or diminution He hath been moft induftrious both colleto and conferwer of choice pieces in that kind Hayward In the Eaftern regions there feems to have bee a general cuftom of the priefts having been the per petual confervers of knowledge and ftory. Temple 2. A preparer of conferves ConsEe'ssion. #. fo [confeffio, Latin.] Dis fitting together Consg'ssor. 7. /. [Latin,] One that fit Di& with others 79 CONSI'DER. @. a. [confidero, Latin. 1. T think upon with care ; to ponder to examine; to fift; to ftudy At our more confider'd time we'll read Anfwer, and think upon this bufinefs Shakefpeare's Hamlet 2. 'To take into the view ; not to omit i the examination It feems neceffary, in the choice of perfons fo greater employments, to confider their bodies ‘a well as their minds, and ages and health as well a Temple their abilities 3. To have regard to; to refpeé; not t defpife Let us confider one anothet to provoke unto love and to good works Hebreavs, Xo 24 4. In the imperative mood it is a kind o interjection ; a word whereby atténtio is fummoned Confider Thy life hath yet been private, moft part fpen At home Milton's Paradife Regained 5. To requite trouble to rewar on for hi Take away with thee the very fervices thou haf done which if I have not enough confidered to b more thankful to thee fhall be my fudy Shakefpeare's Winter's Tale 70 CoNsi'DER @.7 1. To think maturely ; not to judge haftil or rathly None confidereth in his heart, neither is thes kncw.c.déc nor underftanding 20 Ifainb, xliv 2, 1 |