
Noah Webster
Consecutive
CONSECUTIVE, adjective [See Consecution.]
1. Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; as, fifty consecutive years.
2. Following; consequential; succeeding; as, the actions of men consecutive to volition.
3. consecutive chords, in music, imply a succession or repetition of the same consonance in similar motion.