consult
verb
- ask for others' opinions
- get together with
- to give advice
noun
- get together with
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒnsʌlt/ / /kənˈsʌlt/ / /ˈkɑnsʌlt/
noun
Etymology: From Middle French consulte. In sense “council”, it represents Latin cōnsultum, Italian consulto; and it may have been often taken as a direct formation from the verb.
- A visit to consult somebody, such as a doctor; a consultation.
- The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation.
“For firſt upon conſult of reaſon, there will bee found no eaſie aſſurance for to faſten a materiall or temperamentall propriety upon any nation; […]”
- The result of consultation; determination; decision.
“[T]he council broke; / And all their grave conſults diſſolv'd in ſmoke.”
- A council; a meeting for consultation.
“a consult of coquettes”
- Agreement; concert.
verb
Etymology: From Middle French consulter, from Latin cōnsultō (“to deliberate, consult”), frequentative of cōnsulō (“to consult, deliberate, consider, reflect upon, ask advice”), from com- (“together”) + -sulō, from Proto-Indo-European *selh₁- (“to take, grab”).
- To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer; to advise.
“Let us consult upon to-morrow's business.”
“1661 (written), published in 1681, Thomas Hobbes, A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England All the laws of England have been made by the kings of England, consulting with the nobility and commons.”
- To advise or offer expertise.
“Well, I have a trade of my own. I suppose I am the only one in the world. I’m a consulting detective, if you can understand what that is.”
- To work as a consultant or contractor rather than as a full-time employee of a firm.
- To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of (a person)
“If you have no library commission, consult a lawyer and get from him a careful statement of what can be done under present statutory regulations.”
- To refer to (something) for information.
“Which reminds me that I have never remembered from that hour to consult the dictionary upon a selvage.”
“Men forgot, or feared, to consult nature, to seek for new truths, to do what the great discoverers of other times had done; they were content to consult libraries.”
- To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.
“We are […] to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight.”
- To deliberate upon; to take for.
“Many things were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved.”
- To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.
“Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people.”