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consummate

'kɒnsәmeit6 senses · 66 ms
Level C1GRE
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adj/ˈkɒnsəmət//ˈkɒnsjʊmət//kənˈsʌmɪt/
  1. 1

    Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.

    • There lacke many things, that a consummate carde should haue.
    • A man of perfect and consummate virtue.
  2. 2

    Supremely skilled and experienced; highly accomplished; fully qualified.

    • a consummate sergeant
    • The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, […] ; thus it is in his power to control success.
  3. 3

    Consummated, completed, perfected, fully accomplished.obsolete

    • Till righteous fate Upon the Wooers' wrongs were consummate.
  4. 4

    Consummated.obsolete

    • I doe but ſtay till your marriage be conſummate, and then go I toward Arragon.
verb/ˈkɒnsəmeɪt//ˈkɒnsjʊmeɪt//ˈkɑnsəmeɪt/
  1. 1

    To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.transitive

    • Although it was agreed by all that discovery must be consummated by possession and use, […]
    • In one word, in perfumery the artist completes and consummates the original natural odour, which he cuts, so to speak, and mounts as a jeweller improves and brings out the water of a precious stone.
  2. 2

    To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch.transitive

  3. 3

    To make (a marriage) complete by the spouses' first engaging in sexual intercourse.transitive

    • the marriage was never consummated
    • After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.
  4. 4

    To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.intransitive

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