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consummate

adj
/ˈkɒnsəmət/UK/ˈkɑnsəmət/US/ˈkɒnsəmeɪt/UK/ˈkɑnsəmeɪt/US

Etymology

First attested in the beginning of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English consummat(e) (“(past participle) fulfilled, completed; (adjective) perfect, consummate”), borrowed from Latin cōnsummātus, perfect passive participle of cōnsummō (“to sum up, finish, complete”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from con- (“together”) + summa (“a sum”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); see sum, summation. Common participial usage up until Early Modern English.

  1. derived from cōnsummātus
  2. inherited from consummat(e) — “(past participle) fulfilled, completed; (adjective) perfect, consummate”
  3. inherited from consummat(e)

Definitions

  1. Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.

    • There lacke many things, that a consummate carde should haue.
    • A man of perfect and consummate virtue.
    • A sweeping and consummate vengeance for the indignity alone should satisfy him.

  2. Supremely skilled and experienced

    Supremely skilled and experienced; highly accomplished; fully qualified.

    • a consummate sergeant
    • Thus[…] he loses sight of the remoter truth, that details perfect in unity, and, contributing to a final purpose, are the sign of the production of a consummate master.
    • Many of these works are of permanent value from their nobility and beauty of style and their intrinsic emotional significance, and all are characterized by high intellectual qualities, and consummate musicianship.

  3. Consummated, completed, perfected, fully accomplished.

    • Till righteous fate Upon the Wooers' wrongs were consummate.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. Consummated.

      • I doe but ſtay till your marriage be conſummate, and then go I toward Arragon.

    2. To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion

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

      • 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.

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

    4. To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.

      • the marriage was never consummated
      • After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.
      • […] in the essay which he made the very first night to serve her so as to consummate the marriage he made a false move, […]

    5. To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.

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Derived

consummately, consummate marriage, unconsummate, consummative, consummatory, unconsummatable, unconsummated

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA