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COROLLARY, a proposition, geometric or not, incidentally proved in the demonstration of another proposition, and therefore following from it without further proof. Hence the significance of the word, from late Latin corollarium, a gift, money paid for a corolla, a garland. Euclid gave no corollaries, the mod ern examples having been added by commentators on, or editors of, the Elements.