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Consult

//ˈkɒnsʌlt// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A visit to consult somebody, such as a doctor; a consultation. US, countable
  2. 2
    The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "For firſt upon conſult of reaſon, there will bee found no eaſie aſſurance for to faſten a materiall or temperamentall propriety upon any nation; […]"

  3. 3
    The result of consultation; determination; decision. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "[T]he council broke; / And all their grave conſults diſſolv'd in ſmoke."

  4. 4
    A council; a meeting for consultation. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "a consult of coquettes"

  5. 5
    Agreement; concert. countable, obsolete, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer; to advise. intransitive

    "Let us consult upon to-morrow's business."

  2. 2
    advise professionally wordnet
  3. 3
    To advise or offer expertise. intransitive

    "Well, I have a trade of my own. I suppose I am the only one in the world. I’m a consulting detective, if you can understand what that is."

  4. 4
    have a conference in order to talk something over wordnet
  5. 5
    To work as a consultant or contractor rather than as a full-time employee of a firm. intransitive
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  1. 6
    seek information from wordnet
  2. 7
    To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of (a person) transitive

    "If you have no library commission, consult a lawyer and get from him a careful statement of what can be done under present statutory regulations."

  3. 8
    get or ask advice from wordnet
  4. 9
    To refer to (something) for information. transitive

    "Which reminds me that I have never remembered from that hour to consult the dictionary upon a selvage."

  5. 10
    To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes. transitive

    "We are […] to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight."

  6. 11
    To deliberate upon; to take for. obsolete, transitive

    "Many things were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved."

  7. 12
    To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive. obsolete, transitive

    "Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle French consulte. In sense “council”, it represents Latin cōnsultum, Italian consulto; and it may have been often taken as a direct formation from the verb.

Etymology 2

From Middle French consulter, from Latin cōnsultō (“to deliberate, consult”), frequentative of cōnsulō (“to consult, deliberate, consider, reflect upon, ask advice”), from com- (“together”) + -sulō, from Proto-Indo-European *selh₁- (“to take, grab”).

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