Crossword clues for consummate
consummate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
The little band held the post with consummate tenacity.
--Motley
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.
To consummate this business happily.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Latin consummatus "perfected, complete," past participle of consummare "sum up, complete" (see consummation). Of persons, "accomplished, very qualified," from 1640s. Related: Consummately.
1520s, "to bring to completion," from Latin consummatus, past participle of consummare "to sum up, make up, complete, finish" (see consummation). Meaning "to bring a marriage to completion" (by sexual intercourse) is from 1530s. Related: Consummated; consummating.
Wiktionary
1 complete, perfect, absolute. 2 highly skilled and experienced; fully qualified v
1 (context transitive English) To bring (a task, project, goal et
) to completion; to accomplish. 2 (context transitive English) To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch 3 (context transitive English) To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse. 4 (context intransitive English) To become perfected, receive the finishing touch
WordNet
v. of marriages
make perfect; bring to perfection
adj. 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)]
perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities; "a complete gentleman"; "consummate happiness"; "a consummate performance" [syn: complete]
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)]
Usage examples of "consummate".
As soon as a natural movement proves to me that love accepts the offering, I take my measures to consummate the sacrifice.
Little Arcady Heaven had meant to be consummated under more formal auspices.
Her aid and his own wit will carry Odysseus through, and Alkinoos and Arete will turn out to be consummate hosts.
A goodly proportion of my redmen are become exceeding adept at uses of backsword and targeox-strong in the slash, serpent-fast in the thrust of point, agile of foot and adept at consummate targe work, quite dangerous and deadly, all in all.
David, together with a team of collaborators that included Gossec and Marie-Joseph Chenier, to consummate the formal acceptance of the new constitution.
As the high harmonic crowns the end of a long cadenza on a violin, fulfilling bars of difficult effort, this point of exquisite beauty flashed life into the Pattern of the story, consummating the labour of construction with the true, inevitable climax.
They could be easily moved about, and often came to represent the final fragile barrier to the Heian gallant in his quest to consummate a romantic liaison.
The newlyweds would go somewhere tonight and consummate their marriage, though knowing Rebecca as intimately as he did, he knew she had not been doing without sex.
During the past two years, since taking charge of the Phocian forces, he had moved his armies around central Greece with consummate skill, taking key cities in central Greece and sacking the Boeotian stronghold of Orchomenus.
Impossible unless you were a consummate actor and a psychometrics expert.
Clover Lee did her rosinback act with consummate grace, performing her most spectacular tricks directly in front of the chair of the young, slim, smiling Prince Umberto.
How the muse happened to visit him in this clay biggin, take a fancy to a clouterly peasant, and teach him strains of consummate beauty and elegance, must ever be a matter of wonder to all those, and they are not few, who hold that noble sentiments and heroic deeds are the exclusive portion of the gently nursed and the far descended.
If a man has fallen in love with a sweet, enchanting face, and succeeds in lifting the veil of the sanctuary only to find deformities there, still the face wins the day, atones for all, and the sacrifice is consummated.
The thought that our embraces would have no dangerous result had put Pauline at her ease, and she have reins to her ardent temperament, while I did valiant service, till at last we were exhausted and the last sacrifice was not entirely consummated.
Scarcely had I uttered my prayer when it was granted, and I consummated my first union with Semiramis, gazing on the charms of Marcoline, which I had never seen to such advantage before.