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Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
- There lacke many things, that a consummate carde should haue.
- A man of perfect and consummate virtue.
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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.
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Consummated, completed, perfected, fully accomplished.obsolete
- Till righteous fate Upon the Wooers' wrongs were consummate.
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Consummated.obsolete
- I doe but ſtay till your marriage be conſummate, and then go I toward Arragon.
consummate
'kɒnsәmeit6 senses · 66 ms
Level C1GRE
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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.
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To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch.transitive
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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.
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To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.intransitive