effect

Roget category 154

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.8. Causation
›› 1.8.1. Constancy of sequence in events

#154. [Constant sequent.] Effect

noun

effect, consequence — aftergrowth^†, aftercome^† — derivative, derivation — result — resultant, resultance^† — upshot, issue, denouement — end etc. 67 — development, outgrowth, fruit, crop, harvest, product, bud.
production, produce, work, handiwork, fabric, performance — creature, creation — offspring, offshoot — firstfruits^†, firstlings — heredity, telegony^† — premices premises^†.

verb

be the effect of etc. n. — be due to, be owing to — originate in, originate from — rise from, arise, take its rise spring from, proceed from, emanate from, come from, grow from, bud from, sprout from, germinate from, issue from, flow from, result from, follow from, derive its origin from, accrue from — come to, come of, come out of — depend upon, hang upon, hinge upon, turn upon.
take the consequences, sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.

adjective

owing to — resulting from etc. v. — derivable from — due to — caused by etc. 153 — dependent upon — derived from, evolved from — derivative — hereditary — telegonous^†.

adverb

of course, it follows that, naturally, consequently — as a consequence, in consequence — through, all along of, necessarily, eventually.

phrase

cela va sans dire [Fr.], thereby hangs a tale" [Taming of the Shrew].

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