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Definition of Consummate

1. Verb. Fulfill sexually. "Consummate a marriage"

2. Adjective. Having or revealing supreme mastery or skill. "A virtuoso performance"

3. Verb. Make perfect; bring to perfection.

4. Adjective. Perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities. "A consummate performance"

5. Adjective. Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers. "The unadulterated truth"

Definition of Consummate

1. a. Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.

2. v. t. To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.

Definition of Consummate

1. Adjective. Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute. ¹

2. Adjective. highly skilled and experienced; fully qualified ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse. ¹

6. Verb. (intransitive) To become perfected, receive the finishing touch ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Consummate

1. [v -MATED, -MATING, -MATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Consummate

consumerists consumerization consumerize consumerized consumerizes consumerizing consumerlike consumers consumership consumerships

consumes consumest consumeth consuming consumingly consummate(a) consummated consummately consummates consummating

consummations consummative consummator consummators consummatory consummatory behaviour consumpt consumption

Literary usage of Consummate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Looking Backward, 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy (1888)
"... with tears how little was my worth to breathe the air of this golden century, and how infinitely less to wear upon my breast its consummate flower. ..."

2. Handbook of Admiralty Law by Robert Morton Hughes (1920)
"1« TORTS, TO BE MARINE, MUST BE consummate ON.WATER •88. In order for a tort to be within the jurisdiction of the admiralty, it must be consummate on ..."

3. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"Now, since the medal was executed with consummate skill, the valuers of the trade set a far higher price on it than he had thought of. ..."

4. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen (1885)
"... state for Scotland—an office which he held till and thence south-eastwards to the island his death. With what consummate ability, ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... unequaled in his mastery of the dialectic method, with consummate energy he criticized the doctrines of the Platonic Augustinian ?y>- tem and their ..."

6. History of the United Netherlands: From the Death of William the Silent to by John Lothrop Motley (1861)
"... Commissioners — Ceremonious Meeting of all the Envoys — consummate Art in wasting Time — Long Disputes about Commissions — The Spanish Commissions meant ..."

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