consequently

From Middle English consequentely, consequentliche, consequently; equivalent to consequent +‎ -ly.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒnsɪˌkwɛntli/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːnsɪˌkwɛntli/, /ˈkɑːnsəˌkwɛntli/

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consequently (not comparable)

1. (conjunctive) As a result or consequence of something; subsequently.

   He didn't wake up early. Consequently, he was late to work.

   • 1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:

     He Suſpends on theſe Reaſons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Diſcharge to Adam Muſhet, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Diſcharged Muſhet, and conſequently Houstoun his Partner.

   • 1904, Carlo Bourlet, translated by Harold Bolingbroke Mudie, The Esperantist, volume 1, number 8, page 116:

     While algebraical reasoning is most frequently analytical, arithmetical reasoning is generally synthetical, and, consequently, more difficult to understand.

2. (sequence, obsolete) subsequently, following after in time or sequence.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “consequently”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “consequently”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.