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▪ I. corollary|kɒˈrɒlərɪ, ˈkɒrələrɪ|
Forms: 4–6 corolarie, 5 corelarie, 6–7 corolary, 7 corollarie, (correllarie), 6– corollary.
[ad. L. corollārium money paid for a chaplet or garland, gratuity, corollary, properly neut. of adj. corollārius belonging to a chaplet, f. corolla a little crown or chaplet. With senses 3 and 4 cf. Cotgr. ‘Corolaire, a Corollarie; a surplusage, ouerplus, addition to, vantage aboue measure’.]
1. In Geom., etc. A proposition appended to another which has been demonstrated, and following immediately from it without new proof; hence gen. an immediate inference, deduction, consequence.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iii. x. 91 As þise geometriens whan þei han shewed her proposiciouns ben wont to bryngen in þinges þat þei clepen porismes..ryȝt so wil I ȝeue þe here as a corolarie or a mede of coroune. c1449Pecock Repr. i. v. 25 Of whiche..folewith ferther this corelarie. 1551Recorde Pathw. Knowl. ii. liii, Of this Theoreme dothe there folowe an other..whiche you maye calle..a Corollary vnto this laste theoreme. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 467/2 The corolary or effect of this conclusion is, that, etc. 1661Bramhall Just Vind. vi. 110 Where that Author infers as a corollary from the former proposition, That no edict of a Soveraign Prince can justifie Schisme. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. ix. 214 This is but a corollary from what goes before. 1832Lytton Eugene A. i. v, That is scarcely a fair corollary from my remark. 1870Jevons Elem. Logic xv. 135 [They] are in fact corollaries of the first six rules. 1874Helps Soc. Press. xvii. 239 There are corollaries to all axioms.
transf.1828Hawthorne Fanshawe vi, The lady of the house (and, as a corollary, her servant girl).
†b. A thesis, theorem; = conclusion 6. Obs.
1636Heylin Sabbath 47 It is a Corollary or conclusion in Geographie, that, etc. 1800Med. Jrnl. III. 243 Dr. Pearson's Corollaries on the Cow-pox. 1821Byron Sardan. ii. i. 380 You have codes, And mysteries, and corollaries of Right and wrong.
2. transf. Something that follows in natural course; a practical consequence, result.
1674Govt. Tongue (J.), Since we have considered the malignity of this sin..it is but a natural corollary, that we enforce our vigilance against it. 1840Carlyle Heroes (1858) 305 The art of Writing, of which Printing is a simple, an inevitable..corollary. 1884S. E. Dawson Handbk. Canada 29 This gigantic enterprise [the Canadian Pacific Railway] was a necessary corollary of the confederation of British America.
†3. Something added to a speech or writing over and above what is usual or what was originally intended; an appendix; a finishing or crowning part, the conclusion. Obs.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1262 With these verses as with Corollarie..I will conclude this my discourse. 1644Bulwer Chirol. 11 A Corollarie of the Speaking motions..of the Hand. 1649Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 36 There is published a declaration..which, being now the corollary and ἐπιϕορὰ of what they have to say. 1676Worlidge Cyder (1691) 200 A Corollary of the Names and Natures of most Fruits growing in England. 1717Prior Alma ii. 122 Howe'er swift Alma's flight may vary (Take this by way of Corollary).
†4. Something additional or beyond the ordinary measure; a surplus; a supernumerary. Obs.
[1602Carew Cornwall 123 b, The other side is also ouer⁓looked by a great hill..and for a Corollarium their Conduit water runneth thorow the Church-yard.] 1610Shakes. Temp. iv. i. 57 Now come my Ariell, bring a Corolary, Rather then want a Spirit. 1613R. C. Table Alph. (ed. 3), Correllarie, ouerplus, that is more then measure. 1681tr. Willis' Rem. Med. Wks. Voc., Corollary, addition, vantage, or overplus.
▪ II. corollary, a.
[ad. L. corollārius, f. corolla: see prec. In sense 2 f. corolla + -ary.]
1. Of the nature of a corollary; appended as an inference or conclusion. Also, supplementary, associated; consequential (to).
c1449Pecock Repr. 26 Therfore this corelarie conclusioun muste nedis be trewe. 1853Lytton My Novel iii. xxv, Forced to acquiesce in the Parson's corollary remark, ‘That this was’, etc. 1901Westm. Gaz. 4 June 2/3 A whole series of corollary conundrums were presented to the Court of Appeal. 1922Joyce Ulysses 680 What inchoate corollary statement was consequently suppressed by his host? 1938Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Aug. 542/4 This robustly ethical approach, and the corollary determination to regard Shakespeare himself as a conscious moralist. a1961Americana Ann. in Webster, Expansion of the knowledge of atomic energy leading to corollary experimentation..in power generation. 1974R. Helms Tolkien's World ii. 35 Corollary to the tone of the early parts of The Hobbit is an obvious lack of moral inclusiveness.
2. Bot. Belonging to the corolla; corolline. rare.
1882Syd. Soc. Lex., Corollary tendril,..a tendril formed by a petal or segment of a corolla. |