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consummate

adjective

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verb

  1. bring to completion
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈkɒnsəmət/ / /ˈkɒnsjʊmət/ / /kənˈsʌmɪt/ / /ˈkɒnsəmeɪt/ / /ˈkɒnsjʊmeɪt/ / /ˈkɑnsəmeɪt/

adj

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. Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.

    There lacke many things, that a consummate carde should haue.

    A man of perfect and consummate virtue.

  2. 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.

  3. Consummated, completed, perfected, fully accomplished.

    Till righteous fate Upon the Wooers' wrongs were consummate.

  4. Consummated.

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

verb

Etymology: First attested in c. 1525; either inherited from Middle English *consummaten (only attested in compound tenses) or directly borrowed from Latin consummātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

  1. 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.

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

  4. To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.