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adjective

Consecutive adj.

Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years.

Following as a consequence or result; actually or logically dependent; consequential; succeeding. "The actions of a man consecutive to volition."

(Mus.) Having similarity of sequence; said of certain parallel progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony; as, consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are forbidden.

Consecutive chords (Mus.), chords of the same kind succeeding one another without interruption.

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Etymology of 'Consecutive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... prove their origin in the manufactures of the Ionian Euboea and her colonies. The pictures on these vases, also painted in stripes, extend the mythological subject-matter beyond the Trojan cycle to the oldest epical myths, each story being represented in its consecutive phases. ...

— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy

... He thought well of these sonatas, independently of their childish authorship; one andante especially "shows remarkable taste." When it happened that, in the last trio of Opus 2, a mistake of the young master, which his father had corrected (consisting of three consecutive fifths for the violin), was printed, he consoled himself by reflecting that "they can serve as a proof that Wolfgangerlf wrote the sonatas himself, which, naturally, not everyone ...

— Among the Great Masters of Music - Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians • Walter Rowlands

... be written on consecutive pages, unless it be very short, in which case it is preferable to use the first and third, rather than only the first and second, pages. It should never be written so that the sheet has to be turned around and the pages read at different ...

— The Etiquette of To-day • Edith B. Ordway

... not to go to Kansas, I want to know it immediately. It is too late even now, for I refused twenty consecutive engagements for May in one State, thinking it was all given up to Kansas. The man or woman who urges surrender now is more a political partisan than a lover of freedom. I care nothing for all the political parties in ...

— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

... dinner on Mondays, and many more ate but little. There was such a general carrying back of the food at this meal, that I decided to count particularly and see exactly what the facts were. On two consecutive Mondays in April, I think, I did this and found a dozen or over, not even taking their dishes to their cells, so had nothing to eat; thirty-two each day, returned their basins, all, I think, with the bit of bread ...

— The Prison Chaplaincy, And Its Experiences • Hosea Quinby

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