inconsecutive 
inconsecutive (in-kon-sek'u-tiv), a. [< in- s + 
consecutive.'] Not succeeding in regular order; 
disconnected. 
Clement of Alexandria has preserved excerpts of a very 
inconsecutive character. Encyc. Brit., XXIV. 38. 
inconsecutiveness (in-kon-sek'u-tiv-nes), n. 
The quality of being inconsecutive, or without 
order. 
The inconsecutiveness of the primitive mind is curious- 
ly evident in other ways. Andoixr Rev., VIII. 240. 
inconsequence (in-kon'se-kwens), n. [= F. 
inconsequence = Sp. incoitsecuencia = Pg. in- 
consequencia = It. inconseguenza, < L. inconse- 
quentia, < inconsequen(t-)s, inconsequent: see 
inconsequent.] 1. The condition or quality of 
being inconsequent ; want of proper or logical 
sequence ; inconelusiveness. 
Strange that you should not see the inconsequence, of 
your own reasoning. Bp. Hurd, To Rev. Dr. Leland. 
2. That which is inconsequent ; something that 
does not properly follow; an unrelated or mis- 
placed sequence. 
All this seems remarkable and strange, when we con- 
sider only the absurdities and inconsequences with which 
such fictions necessarily abound. 
Ticknor, Span. Lit., III. 92. 
Though Kant certainly did not overlook the inconse- 
quences, or over-estimate the value of common sense, yet 
he clearly recognised that the distinction between it and 
science is a vanishing one. 
E. Caird, Philos. of Kant, p. 203. 
inconsequent (in-kon'se-kwent), a. [= F. in- 
consequent = Sp. inconsecuente = Pg. inconse- 
quente = It. inconseguente, < L. inconsequen(t-)s, 
not consequent, < in- priv. 4- consequen(t-)s, con- 
sequent: see consequent.] 1. Not consequent ; 
not resulting from what has preceded; out of 
proper relation; irrelevant: as, inconsequent re- 
marks; his actions are very inconsequent. 2. 
Not following from the premises ; of the nature 
of an inference the conclusion of which might 
be false though the premises were true ; illo- 
gical ; formally fallacious. 
lien rest not in false apprehensions without absurd and 
inconsequent deductions from fallacious foundations and 
misapprehended mediums, erecting conclusions no way 
inferrible from their premises. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err. 
inconsequential (in-kon-se-kwen'shal), a. [< 
in-8 + consequential.] 1. Not consequential; 
not following from the premises ; without cause 
or without consequences; illogical; irrational: 
as, inconsequential reasons or actions. 
That marvelous and absolutely inconsequential princi- 
ple by which a given man finds himself determined to 
love a certain woman. 
S. Lanier, The English Novel, p. 116. 
2. Of no consequence or value. [Rare.] 
As my time is not wholly inconsequential, I should not 
be sorry to have an early opportunity of being heard. 
Miss Burney, Cecilia, ix. 3. 
Trying to be kind and honest seems an affair too sim- 
ple and too inconsequential for gentlemen of our heroic 
mould. E. L. Stevenson, Scribner's Mag., IV. 766. 
inconsequentiality (in-kon-se-kwen-shi-al'i- 
ti), n. [< inconsequential + -ity.] 1. The state 
of being inconsequential. 2. That which is 
inconsequential. [Bare.] 
inconsequentially(m-kon-se-kwen'8hal-i),a<fr7. 
In an inconsequential manner; without regular 
sequence or deduction. 
He infers inconsequentially in supposing that, from the 
inconsistency of a certain relation concerning revelation, 
there never was any revelation at all. 
Warburton, View of Bolingbroke's Philosophy, iii. 
inconsequently (in-kon'se-kwent-li), adv. In 
an inconsequent manner; 'irrelevantly. 
With the exception of its flowery ending, in which, a 
little inconsequently, the author descants on the bless- 
ings of universal peace, the whole of this chapter is sensi- 
ble. The Academy, No. 885, p. 269. 
inconsequentness (in-kon'se-kwent-nes), n. 
The quality of being inconsequent or irrele- 
vant; inconsequence. 
There is always some inconsequentness or incoherency 
in madness, but there is more of this in Swift. 
Pop. Sci. Mo., XX. 816. 
inconsiderable (in-kon-sid'er-a-bl), a. [= OF. 
inconsiderable = Sp. inconsiderable = Pg. incon- 
sideravel = It. inconsiderabilc ; as in- 3 + consid- 
erable.] Not considerable; not worthy of con- 
sideration or notice; unimportant; trivial; in- 
significant; small. 
I am an inconsiderable fellow and know nothing. 
Sir J. Denham, The Sophy, iii. 1. 
The buildings of what is plainly no inconsiderable city 
stand out against their mountain background. 
E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 95. 
The troubles between them were inconsiderable till 1448 
and 1449, when the hard proceedings of the Constable 
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against others of the friends and relations of Mendoza led 
him into a more formal opposition. 
Ticknor, Span. Lit., I. 333. 
= Syn. Petty, slight, trifling, immaterial. 
inconsiderableness (in-kou-sid'er-a-bl-nes), . 
The quality or condition of being inconsider- 
able or unimportant. 
From the consideration of our own smallness and in- 
considerableness in respect of the greatness and splen- 
dour of heavenly bodies let us with the holy psalmist 
raise up our hearts. Kay, Works of Creation. 
inconsiderably (in-kon-sid'er-a-bli), adv. In an 
inconsiderable manner or degree ; very little. 
inconsideracyt (in-kon-sid'er-a-si), n. [< in- 
considera(te) + -cy.] The quality of being 
inconsiderate; thoughtlessness; want of con- 
sideration: as, "the inconsideracy of youth," 
Chesterfield. 
inconsiderate (in-kon-sid'er-at), a. [= F. in- 
considere = Sp. Pg." inconsiderado = It. incon- 
siderato, < L. inconsideratus, not considerate, < 
in- priv. + consideratus, considerate: see con- 
siderate.] 1. Not considerate; not guided by 
proper considerations; thoughtless; heedless; 
inadvertent. 
Folly and vanity in one of these ladies is like vice in a 
clergyman : it does not only debase him, but make the 
inconsiderate part of the world think the worse of reli- 
gion. Steele, Spectator, No. 854. 
It is too much the fashion of the day to view prayer 
chiefly as a mere privilege, such a privilege as it is incon- 
siderate indeed to neglect, but only inconsiderate, not sin- 
ful. J. H. Newman, Parochial Sermons, i. 245. 
Like an inconsiderate boy, 
As in the former flash of joy, 
I slip the thoughts of life and death. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, cxxil. 
2. Inattentive ; negligent ; without considera- 
tion : followed by of. 
He ... cannot be ... inconsiderate of our frailties. 
Decay of Christian Piety. 
3f. Inconsiderable; insignificant. 
A little inconsiderate peece of brass. E. Terry (1655). 
=Syn. Careless, inattentive, incautious, negligent, hasty, 
giddy, harebrained. 
inconsiderately (in-kon-sid'er-at-li), adv. In 
an inconsiderate manner; without due consid- 
eration; thoughtlessly; heedlessly. 
The President . . . found his company planted so in- 
considerately, in a place not onely sublect to the rivers 
invndation, but round invironed with many intollerable 
inconueniences. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, I. 236. 
inconsiderateness (in-kon-sid'er-at-nes), n. 
The condition or quality of being inconsiderate ; 
heedlessness ; thoughtlessness; inadvertence. 
Their inconsiderateness therefore brands their bretheren 
with crimes whereof they were innocent. 
Bp. Ball, Altar of the Reubenites. 
Prudence and steadiness will always succeed in the long 
run better than folly and inconsiderateness. 
A. Tucker, Light of Nature, I. ii. 28. 
inconsideration (in-kon-sid-e-ra'shon), n. [= 
F. inconsideration = Sp. inconsiderdcion = Pg. 
inconsideragfto = It. inconsiderazione, < LL. in- 
consideratio(n-), < L. in- priv. + consideratio(n-), 
consideration: see consideration.] Want of due 
consideration; disregard of consequences ; in- 
considerate action. 
The greatness of John's love, when he had mastered the 
first inconsiderations of his fear, made him to return a 
while after into the high priest's hall. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 292. 
inconsistence (in-kon-sis'tens), . [= F. in- 
consistance=8p. Pg.' inconststencia ; asinconsis- 
ten(t) + -ce.] Inconsistency. [Rare.] 
What inconsistence is this? 
Bentley, Of Free-thinking, 1. 
inconsistency (in-kon-sis'ten-si), n. ; pi. incon- 
sistencies (-siz). [A"s i inconsistence : see -ency.] 
1. The quality of being inconsistent; want of 
consistency or agreement between ideas or ac- 
tions; contradictory relation of parts or par- 
ticulars ; intrinsic opposition in fact or in prin- 
ciple; incongruity; contrariety; discrepancy. 
There is no kind of inconsistency in a government being 
democratic as far as the privileged order is concerned 
and oligarchic as far as concerns all who lie outside the 
privileged order. E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 287. 
2. A want of consistency in feeling, idea, or act ; 
lack of agreement or uniformity in manifesta- 
tion; incongruity. 
The fool lies hid in inconsistencies. 
Pope, Moral Essays, i. 70. 
It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of 
human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or dis- 
gust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest 
minds- Macaulay, Warren Hastings. 
=Syn. Incoherency, irreconcilability, discrepancy, con- 
_ tradictoriness. See incompatible. 
inconsistent (in-kon-sis'tent), a. [= F. in- 
consistant = Sp. Pg. It. inconsistent; as in-S 
inconspicnousness 
+ consistent] 1. Not consistent in conception 
orinfact; wanting coherence or agreement; dis- 
cordant; discrepant. 
When we say that one fact is inconsistent with another 
fact, we mean only that it is inconsistent with the theory 
which we have founded on that other fact. 
Macaulay, Mill on Government. 
2. Lacking self -agreement or uniformity ; self- 
contradicting. 
Now let him alone, Hal, and you shall hear the incon- 
sistent old sophist contradicting all he has said to-night. 
J. Wilson, Noctes Ambrosiana;, April, 1832. 
Man, in short, is so inconsistent a creature that it is im- 
possible to reason from his belief to his conduct, or from 
one part of his belief to another. 
Macaulay, Hallam's Const. Hist. 
=Syn. 1. Incongruous, etc. See incompatible. 2. Con- 
tradictory, etc. See contrary. 
inconsistently (iu-kon-sis'tent-li), adv. In an 
inconsistent or contradictory manner; incon- 
gruously; discrepancy. 
This is the only crime In which your leading politicians 
could have acted inconsistently. Burke, Rev. in France. 
inconsistentnesst-(in-kon-sis'tent-nes), n. In- 
consistency. 
No contradictious inconsiitentnesse. 
Dr. H. More, Infinity of Worlds, st 49. 
inconsistiblet (in-kon-sis'ti-bl), a. [< in-8 + con- 
sist +-ible.] Inconsistent; variable. [Rare.] 
It hath a ridiculous phiz, like the fable of the old man, 
his ass, and a boy, before the inconsisiible vulgar. 
Roger North, Exiimun, p. 629. 
inconsistingt (in-kon-sis'ting), a. [< in- 3 + 
consisting] Inconsistent. 
The persons and actions of a Farce are all unnatural, and 
the manners false : that is, inconsisting with the characters 
of mankind. Dryden, Parallel of Poetry and Painting. 
inconsolable (in-kon-so'la-bl), a. [= F. incon- 
solable = Sp. inconsolable '= Pg. inconsolavel = 
It. inconsolabile, < L. inconsolalrilis, inconsola- 
ble, < in- priv. + consoldbilis, consolable : see 
consolable.] Not consolable; incapable of be- 
ing consoled or alleviated: as, an inconsolable 
mourner ; inconsolable grief. 
Judge what I endured, terrified with dreams, tormented 
by my apprehensions. I abandoned myself to despair, and 
remained inconsolable. Dryden, Letter in Dryden's Life. 
Her women will represent to me that she is inconsola- 
ble by reason of my unkindne&s. Addison. 
With inconsolable distress she griev'd, 
And from her cheek the rose of beauty fled. 
Falconer, Occasional Elegy. 
inconsolableness (in-kon-so'la-bl-nes), n. The 
state of being inconsolable. 
inconsolably (in-kon-so'la-bli), adv. In an in- 
consolable manner or degree, 
inconsolatelyt (in-kon'so-lat-li), adv. [< "in- 
consolate (not recorded) (= It. inconsolato, < L. 
in- priv. + consolatus, consoled, pp. of conso- 
lare, console : see console, cotisolate, v.) + -ly 2 .] 
Without consolation ; disconsolately. 
Rejoyce . . . not in your transitory honours, titles, trea- 
ures, which will at the last leave you inconaolately sor- 
rowfull. Bp. Hall, Ser. Preached to his Majesty, Gal. ii. 20. 
inconsonance (in-kon'so-nans), re. [< incon- 
sonan(t) + -ce.] Disagreement; want of har- 
mony; discordance. 
inconsonancy (in-kon'so-nan-si), n. Same as 
inconsonance. 
inconsonant (in-kpn'so-nant), a. [= OF. in- 
consonnant, < LL. inconsonan(t-).<i, unsuitable, < 
L. in- priv. + consonan(t-)s, sounding together, 
suitable: see consonant] Not consonant or 
agreeing; discordant. 
They carried them out of the world with their feet for- 
ward, not inconsonant unto reason. 
Sir T. Browne, Urn-burial, iv. 
He is of too honest a breed to resort to ... measures 
inconsonant with the English tongue. 
Stedman, Viet. Poets, p. 250. 
inconsonantly (in-kon'so-nant-li), adv. In an 
inconsonant or discordant manner. 
Inconspicuae (in-kon-spik'u-e), n. pi. [NL. 
(Reichenbach, 1828), fern. pi. of LL. inconspi- 
cuus, not conspicuous: see inconspicuous.] A 
very heterogeneous group of plants, embracing 
the Taxacea!, Santalacece, and Equisetaccte. 
inconspicuous (in-kon-spik'u-us), a. [< LL. 
inconspicuus, not conspicuous, < L. in- priv. + 
conspicuus, conspicuous: see conspicuous] Not 
conspicuous or readily discernible; not to be 
easily perceived by the sight ; so small or un- 
obtrusive as readily to escape notice. 
Socrates in Xenophon has the same sentiment, and says 
that the Deity is inconspicuous, and that a man cannot 
look upon the sun vdthout being dazzled. 
Jortin, On Eccles. Hist, 
inconspicuously (in-kon-spik'u-us-li), adv. In 
an inconspicuous manner. 
inconspicuousness (in-kon-spik'u-us-nes), n. 
The state of being inconspicuous. 
