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.
They were ill-governed, which is always a consequent
of ill payment. --Sir J.
Davies.
2. (Logic) That which follows from propositions by rational
deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or
argumentation; a conclusion, or inference.
3. (Math.) The second term of a ratio, as the term b in the
ratio a:b, the first a, being the antecedent.