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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
consummate
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
consummate a marriageformal (= make your marriage complete by having sex)
▪ She claimed that he abused her and never consummated the marriage.
with consummate easeformal (= in a way that shows great skill and so makes something difficult look very easy)
▪ It was a beautiful goal, scored with consummate ease.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ease
▪ They led a well-orchestrated attack and found their target with consummate ease.
▪ Illustrations produced by any package can be transferred with consummate ease to another.
▪ The mind does extraordinary things exaggerating or minimising with consummate ease.
▪ Levinson demonstrates consummate ease with this material.
skill
▪ De Gaulle conducted his strategy with consummate skill.
▪ With single-minded purpose and consummate skill, Morel set about organizing a movement.
▪ This was done with consummate skill and professionalism.
▪ It was a gap he was to fill with consummate skill.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Johnson was a consummate team player.
▪ Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" is one of the consummate masterpieces of German opera.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the firm is more than just a money-maker; it is the consummate all-rounder.
▪ Dealing with your children's friends who pop round in the evening calls for consummate diplomacy and the setting of time limits.
▪ He had done it with consummate aplomb.
▪ Her control of the stage is consummate, impossible to ignore and intimidating in the extreme.
▪ In the Senate, he has been a bit more tactful but is still a consummate partisan.
▪ Le Pen, a consummate political campaigner, cannily combined the two issues.
▪ Rick Williams is the consummate weekend warrior.
▪ Television, in this sense, is the consummate egalitarian medium of communication, surpassing oral language itself.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
marriage
▪ On refusing to consummate the marriage she was brought before the prior of Huntingdon.
▪ We didn't consummate the marriage for two weeks and only then because she was pressurised into it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A trustee was appointed to consummate the sale.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Between the New Delhi and Uppsala Assemblies no fewer than twenty-two unions were consummated.
▪ But they concede that settlement agreements over penalties can take months longer to consummate.
▪ He also realized that it would be chaste, that he would never physically consummate this love and that was fine.
▪ That which I have written is consummated concerning the operation of the sun.
▪ The latter part of the wide-ranging agreement has not yet been consummated.
▪ The symbols of the body and blood would certainly not have been consumed until the thanksgiving prayer had been adequately consummated.
▪ Thus the first deposition of a king since the Conquest was consummated.
▪ When the deal was consummated, Smith was given the assignment he coveted-to be in charge of finding new sources of pelts.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consummate

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

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
consummate

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.

consummate

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
consummate
  1. 1 complete, perfect, absolute. 2 highly skilled and experienced; fully qualified v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To bring (a task, project, goal et

  3. ) 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
consummate
  1. v. of marriages

  2. make perfect; bring to perfection

consummate
  1. 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)]

  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)]

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.