consulter 
COnsulter (kon-sul'tcr), n. One who consults, 
or asks counsel or information : as, a consulter 
with familiar spirits. 
consulting (kou-sul'ting), /). a. [Ppr. of con- 
sult, c. ; in comp. the verbal n. of consult, v., used 
attributively.] Acting in consultation or as an 
adviser; making a business of giving profes- 
sional advice: as, a consulting barrister; a con- 
sulting physician ; a consulting accountant. 
consultive (kon-sul'tiv), a. [= Sp. Pg. It. con- 
sultieo; as consult + -ive. Cf. consultative.'] 
Pertaining to consultation ; determined by con- 
sultation or reflection ; maturely considered. 
He that remains in the grace of God sins not hy any de- 
liberate, consultive, knowing act. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 770. 
consul tivelyt (kon-sul'tiv-li), adv. In a con- 
sultive manner ; deliberately. 
consumable (kon-su'ma-bl), a. [= F. consu- 
mable, etc.; as consume + -able.] Capable of 
being consumed, dissipated, or destroyed ; de- 
structible. 
Asbestos doth truly agree in this common quality as- 
cribed unto both, of being incombustible, and not consum- 
able by flre. Up. Wilkins, Hath. Magick. 
consumah, consumar (kon'sum-a, -ar), n. 
[Also written connu/nman, consummar, and con- 
sammar; repr. Hind, khdnsamdn, a house-stew- 
ard or butler, perhaps < khwan, a tray, + saman, 
effects.] In the East Indies, a servant having 
charge of the supplies; especially, a house- 
steward or butler. 
The kansamah may be classed with the house-steward 
and butler, both of which offices appear to unite in this 
servant. T. Williamson, East India Vade Jlecum. 
consume (kon-sum'), r. ; pret. and pp. consumed, 
ppr. consuming. [< ME. consumen = D. konsu- 
imreti = 6. consumiren = Dan. konsumere = Sw. 
consumers, < OF. consumer, F. consumer = Sp. 
Pg. consiimir = It. consumare, < L. consumere, 
eat, consume, use up, destroy, lit. take together 
or wholly, < com-, together, + sumere, take, 
contr. of *subimere, < sub, under, from under, 
+ emere, buy, orig. take : see cmption. Cf. as- 
sume, desume, presume, resume.] I. trans. 1. 
To destroy by separating into parts which can- 
not be reunited, as by decomposition, burning, 
or eating; devour; use up; wear out; hence, 
destroy the substance of; annihilate. 
A vulture or eagle stood by him, which in the day-time 
gnawed and consumed his liver. 
Bacon, Physical Fables, ii. 
Where two raging fires meet together, 
They do consume the thing that feeds their fury. 
Shak., T. of the 8., ii. 1. 
Fear and grief 
Convulse us and consume us day by day. 
Shelley, Adonais, xxxix. 
Specifically 2. To destroy by use ; dissipate 
or wear out (a thing) by applying it to its natu- 
ral or intended use : as, only a small part of the 
produce of the West is consumed there ; in an 
unfavorable sense, waste ; squander: as, to con- 
sume an estate. 
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I consume 
In languishing affections for that trespass. 
Ford, Broken Heart, iii. 2. 
2. To be destroyed as by use, burning, etc. : as, 
the fire was lighted, and the wood consumed 
away. 
What heard they daly? . . . that victells consumed 
apace, but he must & would keepe sufficient for them 
selves & their returne. 
Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 79. 
consumedly (kon-su'med-li), adv. [Said to be 
a corruption of consummately.] Greatly; huge- 
ly ; mightily. [Slang.] 
I believe they talk'd of me, for they laugh'd consumedly. 
Farquhar, Beaux Stratagem, iii. 1. 
COnsumeless (kon-sum'les), a. [< consume + 
-less.] Unconsumable. [Bare.] 
How the purple waves 
Scald their consumeless bodies ! 
Quarles, Emblems, iii. 14. 
consumer (kon-su'mer), 11. 1. One who con- 
sumes, destroys, wastes, or spends ; that which 
consumes. 
Time, the consumer of things, causing much time and 
paines to bee spent in curious search, that wee might pro- 
duce some light out of darknessc. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 337. 
The consumers of the energy stored in the fly-wheel of 
an engine are the machines in the mill. 
R. S. Ball, Exper. Mechanics, p. 267. 
2. Specifically, inpolit. econ., one who destroys 
the exchangeable value of a commodity by 
using it: the opposite of producer. 
No labour tends to the permanent enrichment of society 
which is employed in producing things for the use of un- 
productive consumers. J. S. Mill, Pol. Econ., I. iii. 5. 
consumingly (kpn-su'ming-li), adv. In a con- 
suming manner. 
consummah, consummar, . See consumah. 
consummate (kon-sum'at or kon'sum-at), v. t. ; 
pret. and pp. consummated, ppr. consummating. 
[< L. consummatus, pp. of consummare (>It. con- 
summare = Pr. Sp. consumar = Pg. consummar 
= F. consommer), sum up, make up, finish, com- 
plete, < com-, together, + sunima, a sum : see 
sum 2 , summation.] 1. To finish by completing 
what was intended ; perfect ; bring or carry to 
the utmost point or degree ; carry or bring to 
completion ; complete ; achieve. 
During the twenty years which followed the death of 
Cowper, the revolution in English poetry was fully con- 
summated. Macaulay, Moore's Byron. 
Samuel Adams . . . had done more than any one man 
to consummate the ideas of the New England leaders, and 
to advance the progress of Revolution. 
Theodore Parker, Historic Americans, iv. 
Specifically 2. To complete (a marriage) by 
sexual intercourse. 
consummate (kon-sum'at), a. [= Sp. consu- 
mado = Pg. consummado = It. consummate, < 
L. consummatus, pp. : see the verb.] Complete; 
perfect; carried to the utmost extent or de- 
gree : as, consummate felicity ; consummate hy- 
pocrisy 
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye 
may consume it upon your lusts. Jas. iv. 3. 
Italy with Silkes and Velvets consumes our chiefe Com- 
modities. Capt. John Smith, True Travels, I. 128. 
It would require greater sumes of money to furnish such 
a voiage, and to fitt them with necessaries, then their con- 
maied estats would amounte too. 
Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 2<T 
There are numerous products which may be said not to 
admit of being consumed otherwise than nonproductively 
J. S. Mill, Pol. Econ., I. iii. 5. 
3. To cause to waste away ; make thin. 
He became miserably worn and consumed with age. 
Bacon, Moral Fables, ii. 
He was consumed to an anatomy, . . . having nothing 
left but skin to cover his bones. 
J!. Knox (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 352). 
4. To bring to utter ruin ; exterminate. 
Let me alone, . . . that I may consume them. 
Ex. xxxii. 10. 
I'll be myself again, and meet their furies, 
Meet, and consume their mischiefs. 
Fletcher (and another), False One, iv. 2. 
5. To make use of ; employ the whole of ; fill 
out ; spend : with reference to time. 
Thus in soft anguish he consumes the day. 
Thomson, Spring, 1. 1033. 
The day was not long enough, but the night, too, must 
be consumed in keen recollections. 
Emerson, Essays, 1st ser., p. 159. 
= Syn. Demur, etc. (see eat): swallow up, use up en<nilf 
absorb, lavish, dissipate, exhaust. 
II. in trans. 1. To waste (away); become 
wasted or attenuated. 
Their flesh, . . . their eyes, . . . their tongue shall con- 
sume away. Zech- xiv 13 
The bright consummate flower. Milton, P. L., v. 481. 
A Person of an absolute and consummate Virtue should 
never be introduced in Tragedy. 
Adduon, Spectator, No. 273. 
An accomplished hypocrite . . . who had acted with 
consummate skill the character of a good citizen and a 
good friend. Macaulay, History. 
By one fatal error of tactics he [Fox] completely wrecked 
his cause, while the young minister who was opposed to 
him conducted the conflict with consummate judgment 
as well as indomitable courage. 
Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent, xv. 
consummately (kon-sum'at-li), adv. Com- 
pletely ; perfectly. 
consummation (kon-su-ma'shon), n. [= F. 
consommation = Sp. consumacion = Pg. consum- 
magao = It. consumazione, < L. consummatio(n-), 
< consummare, pp. consummatus, finish: see 
consummate, v.] Accomplishment; completion; 
end; the fulfilment or conclusion of anything: 
as, the consummation of one's wishes, or of an 
enterprise. 
By a sleep, to say we end 
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks 
That flesh is heir to 'tis a consummation 
Devoutly to be wish'd. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 1. 
The just and regular process . . . from its original to 
its consummation. Addison, Spectator. 
Consummation of marriage, in law, its completion by 
sexual intercourse. Consummation of the mass, in 
the Galilean liturgies, the last post-communion prayer. 
consummative (kon-sum'a-tiv), a. [= Sp. eon- 
suinatiro, < L. as if "consummatirus, < coiisiimina- 
tus, pp. of. consummare, finish: see consummate, 
B.J Pertaining to consummation ; consummat- 
ing; final. 
The final, the consmnmative procedure of philosophy 
Sir W. Hamilton. 
consumptive 
COnsummator (kon'sum-a-tor), H. [= F. con- 
sommatcnr = Sp. consuniador = Pg. consumma- 
dor = It. consummatore, < LL. conaummator, 
< L. consummare, pp. consummatus, complete: 
see consummate, v.] One who consummates, 
completes, or brings to perfection. 
COnsummatory (kon-sum'a-to-ri), a. [< con- 
Kiiniiiiate + -on/.] Tending or intended to con- 
summate or make perfect. Donne. [Rare.] 
consumptt, a. [ME. , < L. consump tits, consumed, 
pp. of consumere, consume : see consume.] Con- 
sumed. 
It is nat seven to knowe hem that ben dede and con- 
sumpt. Chaucer, Boethius. 
Slayn thanne the aduersaries with a great veniauuce, 
and vnto the deeth almost consumpt. 
Wyclif, Josh. x. 20 (Oxf.). 
consumpt (kon-sumpf), . [< ML. as if *con- 
sumptus, consumption (cf. L. sumptus, expense), 
< L. consumptus, pp. of consumere, consume : 
see consume.] Consumption: as, the produce 
of grain is scarcely equal to the consumpt. [Old 
Eng. and Scotch.] 
consumption (kon-sump'shon), n. [= F. con- 
somption = Pr. consumpcto = Sp. eonsuneion = 
Pg. consumpqao = It. consunzione, < L. consump- 
tio(n-), a consuming, wasting, < consumere, pp. 
consumptus, -consume: see consume.] 1. The 
act of consuming ; destruction as by decompo- 
sition, burning, eating, etc. ; hence, destruction 
of substance ; annihilation. Specifically 2. 
Dissipation or destruction by use ; in polit. econ. , 
the use or expenditure of the products of in- 
dustry, or of anything having an exchangeable 
value. 
Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new 
incentive to him to retrench . . . his consumption, 
Burke, A Regicide Peace, iii. 
The distinction of Productive and Unproductive is appli- 
cable to Cotimmjition as well as to Labour. All the mem- 
bers of the community are not labourers, but all are con- 
sumers, and consume either unproductively or produc- 
tively. J. S. Mill, Pol. Econ., I. iii. 5. 
The first proposition of the theory of consumption is, that 
the satisfaction of every lower want in the scale creates a 
desire of a higher character. Jevons, Pol. Econ., p. 46. 
3. The state of being wasted or diminished. 
The mountains themselves [Etna and Vesuvius] have not 
suffered any considerable diminution or consumption. 
Woodieard. 
4. In med. : (a) A wasting away of the flesh ; 
a gradual attenuation of the body ; progressive 
emaciation: a word of comprehensive signifi- 
cation. (6) More specifically, a disease of the 
lungs accompanied by fever and emaciation, of- 
ten but not invariably fatal : called technically 
phthisis, or phthisis pulmonaris. See phthisis 
and tuberculosis. 
Such are Kings-euils, Dropsie, Gout, and Stone, 
Blood-boyling Lepry, and Consumption. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii.,The Furies. 
COnsumptionalt(kon-sump'shon-al), a. [(con- 
sumption + -al.] Consumptive. "Fuller. 
consumptionaryt (kon-sump'shon-a-ri), a. [< 
consumption + -dry 1 ,] Consumptive. 
His wife being consumptimiart/, and so likely to die with- 
out child. Bp. Gauden, Bp. Brownrigg, p. 206. 
COnsumptionert (kon-sump'shqn-er), n. [< con- 
sumption + -er 1 .] 1. One w"ho consumes; a 
consumer. Davenant. [Bare.] 2. A retailer. 
These duties, which were in addition to the ordinary 
customs duties, were to be paid by the consuiitptioner, as 
the retailer was termed. 
S. Dou'ell, Taxes ill England, II. 35. 
consumptive (kon-sump'tiv), . and n. [= F. 
consomplif= Sp. It. consuntiro = Pg. consump- 
tivo, < L. as if * consumptions, < consumptus, pp. 
of consumere: see consume.] I. a. 1. Destruc- 
tive ; wasting ; exhausting ; having the quality 
of consuming or dissipating. 
Consumptive of time. 
Jer. Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, Pref. 
A long consumptiue war is more likely to break this grand 
alliance than disable France. Addison, State of the War. 
2. In med., pertaining to or of the nature of 
consumption, or phthisis pulmonaris. 3. Af- 
fected with a consuming disease ; specifically, 
having or predisposed to consumption: as, 'a 
consumptive person ; a consumptive constitution. 
The lean consumptive, wench, with coughs decayed, 
Is called a pretty, tight, and slender maid. Drydfn. 
While that [the Body] droops and sinks under the bur- 
den, tile Soul may lie as vigorous and aetive in such a con- 
n/mptw 8tat>, of the Body as ever it was before. 
Stillimjjteet, Sermons, I. xii. 
4. Relating to or designed for consumption or 
destruction ; specifically, in recent use, pertain- 
ing to or designed for consumption by use : as, 
a consumptive demand for hops. 
