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consummate

consummate

5 definitions found for consummate

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Consummate \Con*sum"mate\ (k[o^]n*s[u^]m"m[asl]t), a. [L.
     consummatus, p. p. or consummare to accomplish, sum up; con-
     + summa sum. See Sum.]
     Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest
     quality; complete; perfect. "A man of perfect and consummate
     virtue." --Addison.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The little band held the post with consummate tenacity.
                                                    --Motley
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Consummate \Con"sum*mate\ (k[o^]n"s[u^]m*m[=a]t or
     k[o^]n*s[u^]m"m[=a]t; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Consummated
     (k[o^]n"s[u^]m*m[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Consummating
     (k[o^]n"s[u^]m*m[=a]`t[i^]ng).]
     To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or
     degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           To consummate this business happily.     --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :

  consummate
      adj 1: having or revealing supreme mastery or skill; "a
             consummate artist"; "consummate skill"; "a masterful
             speaker"; "masterful technique"; "a masterly performance
             of the sonata"; "a virtuoso performance" [syn:
             consummate, masterful, masterly, virtuoso(a)]
      2: perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary
         qualities; "a complete gentleman"; "consummate happiness"; "a
         consummate performance" [syn: complete, consummate]
      3: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative)
         intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a
         consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross
         negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding
         mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter
         nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth" [syn: arrant(a),
         complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a),
         everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a),
         sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a),
         utter(a), unadulterated]
      v 1: fulfill sexually; "consummate a marriage"
      2: make perfect; bring to perfection

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  185 Moby Thesaurus words for "consummate":
     able, absolute, accomplish, accomplished, achieve, acmatic,
     all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, apical,
     archetypical, arrant, attain, born, broad-based, cap, capital,
     chief, classic, classical, clean, clear, climax, compass, complete,
     comprehensive, conclude, congenital, crass, crest, crown,
     culminate, deal with, decided, deep-dyed, definitive, developed,
     discharge, dispatch, dispose of, do, do the job, do the trick,
     downright, dyed-in-the-wool, effect, effectuate, egregious, enact,
     end, execute, exemplary, exhaustive, expert, faultless, fetch,
     finish, finished, flagrant, flawless, frost, fulfill,
     fully developed, fully realized, gifted, glaring, gross, halt,
     head, headmost, highest, ice, impeccable, inimitable, intensive,
     intolerable, knock off, make, manage, masterful, masterly, mature,
     matured, maximal, maximum, meridian, meridional, model, omnibus,
     omnipresent, out-and-out, outright, outtop, overarch, overmost,
     overtop, paramount, peak, peerless, perfect, perfected, perform,
     pervasive, plain, plumb, polish off, polished, positive, practiced,
     precious, preeminent, produce, proficient, profound, pronounced,
     proper, pure, put away, quintessential, radical, rank, realize,
     refined, regular, ripe, ripened, shattering, sheer, shocking,
     skilled, stark, stark-staring, straight, succeed, summital, superb,
     superlative, supreme, surmount, surpassing, sweeping, take care of,
     talented, terminate, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing,
     through-and-through, tip, tip-top, top, top off, topmost, total,
     trained, transcendent, turn the trick, ubiquitous, ultimate,
     unbearable, unconditional, unconscionable, undeniable, unequivocal,
     universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, unreserved,
     unrestricted, unspoiled, unsurpassable, upmost, uppermost, utter,
     veritable, vertical, virtuosic, wholesale, wind up, work, work out,
     wrap up, zenithal
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  CONSUMMATE. What is completed. A right is said to be initiate, when it is not
  
  complete; and when it is perfected, it is consummated.