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- noun Plural form of
consecution .
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Examples
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Thus though the consecutions are the same in the scumm or the skin on the top of metals; yet in those consecutions in the same colour is not so often repeated as in the consecutions in thin Glass, or in Sope-water, or any other more transparent and glutinous liquor; for in these I have observ'd, _Red, Yellow, Green,
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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The mere coincidences or consecutions, mere accidents of simultaneity or succession, of precession or succession, maybe less than nothing.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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These threads were some of them so small, that I could very plainly, with the _Microscope_, discover the same consecutions of colours as in a
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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From the quick consecutions of these two, one after another, between the
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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Purple; Red, Yellow, & c. _ to succeed each other, ten or twelve times, but in the other more _opacous_ bodies the consecutions will not be half so many.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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It is also observable, that those bright scintillations neer the Horizon, are not by much so quick and sudden in their consecutions of one another, as the nimbler twinklings of Stars neerer the Zenith.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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The contract did provide a few consecutions, including two one-time bonuses for hours already worked.
LA IMC 2009
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a Wedge, by degrees grow to the greatest thickness that a Plate can be of, to exhibit a colour by the reflection of Light from such a body, there shall be generated several consecutions of colours, whose order from the thin end towards the thick, shall be _Yellow, Red, Purple, Blue, Green;
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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