consummate

UK /ˈkɒnsəmət/ US /ˈkɒnsəmət/
adj 4verb 4

Definitions

adj

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

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.

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