consummate
adjective
No English definition recorded for this entry.
L269611 on Wikidata ↗verb
- bring to completion
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.
- Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
“There lacke many things, that a consummate carde should haue.”
“A man of perfect and consummate virtue.”
- 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.”
- Consummated, completed, perfected, fully accomplished.
“Till righteous fate Upon the Wooers' wrongs were consummate.”
- 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.
- 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.”
- To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch.
- 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.”
- To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.