Consummate

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


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           The little band held the post with consummate tenacity.
                                                    --Motley
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           To consummate this business happily.     --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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: {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}]
       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" [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)}]
       v 1: of marriages
       2: make perfect; bring to perfection

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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) [bouvier]:

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