consecution
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The ideas of space, time, power, law, reason, and end, are the logical antecedents of the ideas of body, succession, event, consecution, order, and adaptation.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
Sometimes it is in a natural but rhythmic consecution of ideas.
From Study of the King James Bible by Cleland Boyd McAfee
The first is the spontaneous and as it were mechanical consecution of mental states in the soul whence the interfering effect of voluntary consciousness has been removed.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The commencement of the new chapter at this point makes an unfortunate division; for its first two verses are in close consecution with the last verse of chapter iv.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay
He detected grammatical niceties in Latin, in regard to the consecution of tenses which had escaped preceding critics.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
