consummate
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consummate¹
- /ˈkɒnsəmət/ UK
- /ˈkɒnsjʊmət/ UK
- /kənˈsʌmɪt/ UK
- /ˈkɑnsəmət/ US
- /kənˈsʌmɪt/ US
Where it comes from
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.
adjective more consummate · most consummate
- Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute. There lacke many things, that a consummate carde should haue.
- Supremely skilled and experienced; highly accomplished; fully qualified. a consummate sergeant
- 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.
consummate²
- /ˈkɒnsəmeɪt/ UK
- /ˈkɒnsjʊmeɪt/ UK
- /ˈkɑnsəmeɪt/ US
Where it comes from
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.
verb consummates · consummating · consummated
- 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, […]
- To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch.
- To make (a marriage) complete by the spouses' first engaging in sexual intercourse. the marriage was never consummated
- To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.
