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Consummate

//ˈkɑnsəmət// adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.

    "There lacke many things, that a consummate carde should haue."

  2. 2
    Supremely skilled and experienced; highly accomplished; fully qualified.

    "a consummate sergeant"

  3. 3
    Consummated, completed, perfected, fully accomplished. obsolete

    "Till righteous fate Upon the Wooers' wrongs were consummate."

  4. 4
    Consummated. obsolete

    "I doe but ſtay till your marriage be conſummate, and then go I toward Arragon."

Adjective
  1. 1
    without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers wordnet
  2. 2
    perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities wordnet
  3. 3
    having or revealing supreme mastery or skill wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish. transitive

    "Although it was agreed by all that discovery must be consummated by possession and use, […]"

  2. 2
    make perfect; bring to perfection wordnet
  3. 3
    To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch. transitive
  4. 4
    fulfill sexually wordnet
  5. 5
    To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse. transitive

    "the marriage was never consummated"

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  1. 6
    To become perfected, receive the finishing touch. intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

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