consciousness 
5. An intuitive perception or persuasion; a 
state of being aware; an inward recognition; 
a feeling. 
They parted ; on Miss Tilney's side with some knowledge 
of her new acquaintance's feelings, and on Catherine's, 
without the smallest consciousness of having explained 
them. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, p. 54. 
In his will he [Bacon] expressed with singular brevity 
... a mournful conxciouttttesit that his actions had not 
been such as to entitle him to the esteem of those under 
whose observation his life had been passed. 
Macavlay, Lord Bacon. 
Data of consciousness. See do! mn. Double con- 
sciousness, in itied. pgyeAoi., a somnambulistic condition 
in which the patient leads, as it were, two lives, recollect- 
ing in each condition what occurred in previous conditions 
of the same character, but knowing nothing of the occur- 
rences of the other. Dunglison. Fact Of conscious- 
ness. See/art. 
consciovoluntary (kon-shio-vol'un-ta-ri), a. 
[< conscious (L. conscius) + voluntary.'] Per- 
taining to consciousness and will. 
COnsciunclet (kon'shi-ung-kl), n. [Irreg. < con- 
science + dim. -uncle.'] A worthless, trifling 
conscience : used in contempt. [Rare.] 
Their rubrics are filled with punctilios, not for con- 
sciences, but for consciuncles. 
Bp. Hacket, Abp. Williams, i. 66. 
conscribet (kon-skrib'), v. t. [= D. conscriberen 
= G. conscribiren = Dan. konskribere = Sw. Tcon- 
skribera = OF. conscrire = It. conscrivere, < L. 
conscribcre, enroll, choose, elect, < com-, toge- 
ther, + scribere, write: see scribe, conscript.] 
To enroll ; enlist ; levy as by a conscription. 
This armie (whiche was not smalle) was conscribed and 
come together to Harflete. Hall, Edw. IV., an. 9. 
conscript (kon-skripf), (-. t. [< L. conscriptus, 
pp. of conscriberBj enroll : see conscribe. ] To 
enroll compulsonly for military or naval ser- 
vice ; force into service ; draft. 
Suddenly the levy came Pierre was conscripted. 
The Century, XXXII. 960. 
conscript (kon'skript), a. and . [= F. conscrit 
= Sp. Pg. conscripto = It. conscritto = D. con- 
sent, < L. conscriptus, enrolled, chosen, elect, 
pp. of conscribere, enroll: see conscribc.] I. a. 
Registered ; enrolled Conscript fathers, a com- 
mon English rendering of the Latin phrase patres conscrip- 
ti (fathers [and] conscripts), used in addressing the senate 
of ancient Home. Senators were of two classes, patres, 
'fathers,' or patrician nobles, and conscripti, or those 
' elected ' from the equestrian orders. 
Fathers conscript, may this our present meeting 
Turn fair and fortunate to the commonwealth '. 
E. Jonson, Sejanus, iii. 1. 
II. n. One who is compulsorily enrolled for 
military or naval service. 
The law ordains that the conscript shall serve for five 
years. B. Taylor, Lands of the Saracen, p. 164. 
conscription (kon-skrip'shon), n. [= F. con- 
scription = Sp. "conscription = Pg. conscripcao 
= D. conscriptie = G. conscription = Dan. Sw. 
konskription, < L. conscriptio(n-), a drawing up 
in writing, LL. a conscription, < conscribere, en- 
roll : see conscribe,] If. An enrolling or regis- 
tering. 
Conscription of men of war. Bp. Burnet, Records, ii. 23. 
Specifically 2. A compulsory enrolment by 
lot or selection of suitable men for military or 
naval service. This was formerly the prevalent method 
of recruiting on the continent of Europe ; but the system 
of the universal enrolment of properly qualified persons, 
and compulsory service according to gradation, has been 
substituted for it in most countries there. 
This tribe is in rebellion in Djebel Hauaran, on account 
of the conscription. 
B. Taylor, Lands of the Saracen, p. 113. 
conscriptional (kon-skrip'shon-al), . [< con- 
scription + -al.] Pertaining to or of the nature 
of a conscription. 
COnseasonal (kon-se'zon-al), a. [< con- + sea- 
son + -al.] Occurring or found at the same 
season of the year: as, conseasonal insects. 
[Rare.] 
consecrate (kon'se-krat), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
consecrated, ppr. consecrating. [< L. consecra- 
tus, pp. of consecrure, dedicate, declare to be 
sacred, deify (> It. consecrare, consegrare = Sp. 
Pg. consagrar = Pr. consecrar, consegrar = F. 
consacrer, consecrate : see consaere), < com-, to- 
gether, + sacrarc, consecrate, < sacer, sacred: 
see sacred. Cf. consaere.] 1. To make or de- 
clare sacred with certain ceremonies or rites ; 
appropriate to sacred uses or employments; 
set apart, dedicate, or devote to the service of 
the Deity: as, to consecrate a church; to conse- 
crate the eucharistic elements. See consecra- 
tion, 1. 
Thou shalt consecrate Aaron and hi sons. Ex. xxix. 9. 
1204 
If the consecrated bread or wine be spent before all have 
communicated, the Priest is to consecrate more. 
Book of Common Prayer, The Communion. 
When a Man has Consecrated anything to God, he can- 
not of himself take it away. Selden, Table-Talk, p. 40. 
In a larger sense, we cannot dedicate we cannot con- 
secratewe cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, 
living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it. 
far above our poor power to add or detract. 
Lincoln, Speech at Gettysburg Cemetery, Nov. 19, 1863. 
2. Specifically, in the Roman Catholic and 
Anglican churches, to initiate solemnly into the 
order of bishops, as a priest. See consecration, 2 
(a). 3. To devote or dedicate from profound 
feeling or a religious motive: as, his life was 
consecrated to the service of the poor. 
These to His Memory . . . 
I dedicate, I consecrate with tears 
These Idylls. 
Tennyson, Ded. of Idylls of the King. 
4. To make revered or worshiped, or highly 
regarded; hallow: as, a custom consecrated by 
time. 
He [Christ] clothed himself in their affections, and they 
admitted him to their sorrows, and his presence conse- 
crated their joys. J. Martineau. 
A kiss can consecrate the ground, 
Where mated hearts are mutual bound. 
Campbell, Hallowed Ground. 
5. To place among the gods; apotheosize. 6. 
To enroll among the saints; canonize. =Syn. 1 
and 3. Devote, Dedicate, etc. See devote. 
consecrate (kon'se-krat), a. [< L. consecrates, 
pp. : see the verb.] Sacred ; consecrated ; de- 
voted; dedicated. [Obsolete or poetical.] 
Also in Cyprys is Paphon, that was a temple consecrate 
to Venus. Sir B. Guylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 15. 
Assembled in that consecrate place. 
Bacon, Hist. Hen. VII. 
Th' imperial seat ; to virtue consecrate. 
Shak., Tit. And., i. 1. 
consecratedness (kon'se-kra-ted-nes), n. The 
state of being consecrated. Rev. R. Cecil. 
[Rare.] 
consecration (kon-se-kra'shon), n. [< ME. con- 
secracioun = F. consecration "= Pr. consecracion 
= Sp. consagracion, consecracion = Pg. consa- 
grac&o = It. consagrazione, consacrazione, eon- 
secrazione, < L. ,consecratio(n-), < consecrare, pp. 
consecratus, consecrate: see consecrate, v.] 1. 
The act of consecrating, or separating from a 
common to a sacred use ; the act of devoting or 
dedicating a person or thing to the service and 
worship of God by certain rites or solemnities : 
as, the consecration of the priests among the Is- 
raelites ; the consecration of the vessels used in 
the temple ; the consecration of the elements in 
the eucharist; the consecration of a church. 
The consecration of his God is upon his head. 
Num. vi. 7. 
Consecration makes not a place sacred, but only solemn- 
ly declares it so. South. 
Specifically 2. Eccles.: (a) The act of con- 
ferring upon a priest the powers and authority 
of a bishop ; the rite or ceremony of elevation 
to the episcopate. In the Roman Catholic, in the 
Greek and other Oriental churches, and in the Anglican 
Church, imposition of hands by a bishop for the pur- 
pose of making the candidate a bishop is held to be essen- 
tial to consecration, and the rule is that at least three 
bishops shall unite in the act, as directed by the fourth 
canon of the first Council of Nicaea, A. D. 325. 
Only papal authority could loose the tie that hound the 
bishop to the church of his consecration. 
Stubba, Const. Hist., 383. 
(6) The act of giving the sacramental charac- 
ter to the eucharistic elements of bread and 
wine. According to the Roman Catholic and the Angli- 
can Church the essential act of eucharistic consecration 
consists in the recital of the words of institution over the 
elements by a priest. ( c ) The prayer used to con- 
secrate the eucharistic elements. In Its fullest 
form it consists of three parts : (1) the institution ; (2) 
the oblation, called distinctively the great oblation; 
and (3) the ejncleiis or invocation. ((J) The act of 
placing a particle of the consecrated bread or 
host in the chalice; the commixture (which 
see). 3. Devotion or dedication from deep 
feeling, especially from a religious motive : as, 
the consecration of one's self to the service 
of God, or of one's energies to the search for 
truth. 4. In Rom. hist., the ceremony of the 
apotheosis of an emperor Consecration-cross, a 
cross cut or painted upon the walls of a church, the slab 
of an altar, etc. It has been canonical at different times 
to make a given number of these crosses, as, for instance, 
in the middle ages, five upon the altar-slab, one in the 
middle and one at each of the four corners, and, as stated 
by some authors, twelve upon the walls of a church when 
newly built, either within or without. It was customary 
to consecrate each of these crosses with chrism, and to re- 
cite a special prayer, and perhaps to incense each one ; in 
some cases the cross was cut subsequently in a place which 
the officiant had consecrated in this manner. In the Greek 
consecutive 
Church three larger crosses are cut upon the altar-slab in- 
stead of five, and the pillars supporting the altar also re- 
ceive crosses. See altar-board. 
consecrator (kon'se-kra-tor), n. [= F. conse- 
i-rateiir = It. consecr'atore, t. LL. consecrator, < L. 
consecrare, pp. consecratus, consecrate : see con- 
secrate, )'.] One who consecrates. 
consecratory (kon'se-kra-to-ri), a. [< conse- 
crate + -ory ; = Pg. consecratorio.] Making sa- 
cred ; consecrating; of the nature of consecra- 
tion. [Rare.] 
Againe, they [sacrifices] were propitiatorie, conmcrato- 
rie, Eucharisticall, and so forth. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 33. 
Consecratont words. 
7)>. Morton, Discharge of Impnt. (1633), p. 69. 
consectaneous (kon-sek-ta'ne-us), a. [< LL. 
consectaneiis, following after, consequent, < L. 
coifsectari, follow after, pursue eagerly, freq. 
of conseqiti, follow after: see consequent.] Fol- 
lowing as a natural consequence. [Rare.] 
consectaryt (kon'sek-ta-ri), 11. and n. [< L. 
consectarius, that follows logically, < consectari, 
follow after: see consectaneous.] I. a. Follow- 
ing logically ; obviously deducible. 
From the inconsistent and contrai'y determinations 
thereof, consectary impieties and conclusions may arise. 
Sir T. Browne. 
II. n. A corollary ; a proposition which fol- 
lows immediately as a collateral result of an- 
other, and thus needs no separate proof. 
These propositions are c&nsectaries. 
Woodward, Essay towards a Nat. Hist, of the Earth. 
consecutet (kon'se-kut), v. t. [< L. consecutus, 
Sp. of consequi, follow after: see consequent.] 
. To follow closely after ; pursue. 
Which his grace accepteth, as touching your merit* and 
acquittal, in no less good and thankful part than if y e , find- 
ing the disposision of things in more direct state, had con- 
secuted all your pursuits and desires. 
Bp. Burnet, Records, ii. 23. 
2. To overtake or gain by pursuit ; attain. 
Few men hitherto, being here in any auctoritie, hath 
finally consecuted favors and thankes, but rather the con- 
trarie, with povertie for theire farewell. 
State Papers, ii. 389. (Nares.) 
consecution (kon-se-ku'shpu), n. [=F. consecu- 
tion = Pr. consecutio = Sp. consecution = Pg. con- 
secugao = It. consecuzione, < L. consecutio(n-), < 
consequi, pp. consecutus, follow after: see con- 
sequent.] 1 . The act of following, or the condi- 
tion of being in a series ; that which is consec- 
utive ; succession ; sequence. [Rare or obso- 
lete.] 
In a quick consecution of colours, the impression of 
every colour remains on the sensorium. Newton, Opticks. 
2. In logic, the relation of consequent to ante- 
cedent, or of effect to cause ; deduction ; con- 
sequence. 
Consecution* . . . evidently found in the premises. 
Sir M. Hale. 
In every [argument concerning religious belief] . . . 
sooner or later there comes a point where strict logical 
consecution fails, and where the passage is made from prem- 
ise to conclusion by an appeal to faith and feeling or some 
other illogical element. B. P. Bowne. 
The conception of consecution itself, the shifting func- 
tion of the infinitive, the oscillation of the leading parti- 
cle iairrt are enough, single or combined, to perplex the 
student who tries either the analytical or the historical 
method, or both. Amer. Jour. Philol., VII. 163. 
Consecution month, in astron., the space between one 
conjunction of the moon with the sun and another ; a lu- 
nar month. Consecution Of tenses. Same as sequence 
of tenses. See sequence. Reciprocal consecution, in 
loffic, the relation of two facts either of which implies the 
other. 
consecutive (kon-sek'u-tiv), a. and n. [= F. 
consecutif = Sp. Pg. It. consecutivo, < L. as if 
*consecutivus, < consecutus, pp. of consequi, fol- 
low: see consequent, consecution.] I. a. 1. Un- 
interrupted in course or succession; succeed- 
ing one another in a regular order ; successive. 
Fifty consecutive years of exemption. 
Arbuthnot, Anc. Coins. 
2. Following ; succeeding : with to. 
Comprehending only the actions of a man, consecutive 
to volition. Locke. 
Consecutive combination. See combination. Con- 
secutive Intervals, in music, the similar intervals that 
occur between two voices or parts that pass from one 
. . chord to another in parallel mo- 
-J 1 tion. Also called parallel intfr- 
m>* 4 uals. Consecutive thirds and 
I" J J sixths are agreeable ; consecutive 
d -^ ' fourths, disagreeable ; while con- 
secutive perfect fifths or octaves 
(or unisons) are usually forbidden. 
Consecutive fifths and octaves (or 
unisons) are covered or hidden 
when the fifth or octave is reached 
by similar but not parallel motion ; 
such progressions are rarely ob- 
jectionable, except when occurring 
between the outer, most conspicu- 
Consccutive Fifths. ous voices, and not then if one of 
