consĕcūtĭo (also consĕquūtĭo), ōnis, f. [consequor] (several times in Cic. as a philos. and rhet. t. t., elsewhere perh. only in late Lat.)
I In philos. lang., an effect, consequence : ipsa detractio molestiae consecutionem adfert voluptatis, has pleasure as a consequence , Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 37; id. de Or. 3, 29, 113: simplex autem conclusio ex necessariā consecutione conficitur, id. Inv. 1, 29, 45, id. Top. 13, 53 al.— Plur. : causas rerum et consecutiones videre, Cic. Fin. 2, 14, 45.—*
II In rhet. lang., the proper following of one thing after another, order, connection, sequence : verborum ... ne generibus, numeris, temporibus, personis, casibus perturbetur oratio, Cic. Part. Or. 6, 18.—
III An acquiring, obtaining, attainment ( = adeptio; eccl. Lat.); with gen. obj. : baptismi, Tert. Bapt. 18 fin. : resurrectionis, id. Res. Carn. 52.