Lewis Short
consĕcūtĭo | consĕquūtĭo (noun F) : (also ), , consequor (several times in Cic. as a philos. and rhet. t. t., elsewhere perh. only in late Lat.)
* 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.—*
* 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.
* An acquiring, obtaining, attainment ( = adeptio; eccl. Lat.); with gen. obj.: baptismi,Tert. Bapt. 18 fin.: resurrectionis,id. Res. Carn. 52.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary