superconsequence
English
editEtymology
editFrom super- + consequence.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsuperconsequence (countable and uncountable, plural superconsequences)
- (obsolete, rare) remote consequence
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- they are fain to omit their superconsequences, coherences, figures, or tropologies, and are not sometimes persuaded by fire beyond their literalities.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “superconsequence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)