Consequent

1. n. The second term of a ratio, as the term b in the ratio a:b, the first a, being the antecedent.
2. a. Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.
3. a. Following by necessary inference or rational deduction; as, a proposition consequent to other propositions.
4. n. That which follows, or results from, a cause; a result or natural effect.
5. n. That which follows from propositions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion, or inference.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.