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<p><b>3.</b> <def>In a regular series; in the order of cause and effect; with logical concatenation; consecutively; continuously.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>With assumed importance; pompously.</def>

<h1>Consequentialness</h1> <Xpage=306>

<hw>Con`se*quen"tial*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being consequential.</def>

<h1>Consequently</h1> <Xpage=306>

<hw>Con"se*quent*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>By consequence; by natural or logical sequence or connection.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- See <er>Accordingly</er>.</syn>

<h1>Consertion</h1> <Xpage=306>

<hw>Con*ser"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>consertio</ets>, fr. <ets>conserere</ets>, <ets>-sertum</ets> to connect; <ets>con-</ets> + <ets>serere</ets> to join.]</ety> <def>Junction; adaptation</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote><b>Consertion</b> of design, how exquisite. <i>Young.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Conservable</h1> <Xpage=306>

<hw>Con*serv"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>conservabilitis</ets>.]</ety> <def>Capable of being preserved from decay or injury.</def>

<h1>Conservancy</h1> <Xpage=306>

<hw>Con*serv"an*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Conservation, as from injury, defilement, or irregular use.</def>

<blockquote>[An act was] passed in 1866, for vesting in the Conservators of the River Thames the <b>conservancy</b> of the Thames and Isis. <i>Mozley & W.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Conservant</h1> <Xpage=306>

<hw>Con*serv"ant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>conservans</ets>, p.pr.]</ety> <def>Having the power or quality of conservation.</def>

<h1>Conservation</h1> <Xpage=306>

<hw>Con`ser*va"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>conservatio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>conservation</ets>.]</ety> <def>The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.</def>

<blockquote>A step necessary for the <b>conservation</b> of Protestantism. <i>Hallam.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A state without the means of some change is without the means of its <b>conservation</b>. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Conservation of areas</col> <fld>(Astron.)</fld>, <cd>the principle that the radius vector drawn from a planet to the sun sweeps over equal areas in equal times.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Conservation of energy</col>, &or; <col>Conservation of force</col></mcol> <fld>(Mech.)</fld>, <cd>the principle that the total energy of any material system is a quantity which can neither be increased nor diminished by any action between the parts of the system, though it may be transformed into any of the forms of which energy is susceptible.</cd></cs>

<i>Clerk Maxwell.</i>

<h1>Conservational</h1> <Xpage=306>

<hw>Con`ser*va"tion*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Tending to conserve; preservative.</def>

<h1>Conservatism</h1> <Xpage=306>

<hw>Con*serv"a*tism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[For <ets>conservatism</ets>.]</ety> <def>The disposition and tendency to preserve what is established; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a conservative.</def>

<h1>Conservative</h1> <Xpage=306>