Consequences
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late Middle English: via Old French from Latin consequentia, from consequent- ‘following closely’, from the verb consequi .
etymonline
consequences (n.)
see consequence. As the name of a round game, attested from 1796.
A game in which one player writes down an adjective, the second the name of a man, the third an adjective, the fourth the name of a woman, the fifth what he said, the sixth what she said, the seventh the consequence, etc., etc., no one seeing what the others have written. After all have written, the paper is read. [Century Dictionary]
