Consummate
WordNet
adjective
(1) Perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities
"A complete gentleman"
"Consummate happiness"
"A consummate performance"
(2) 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"
verb
(3) Make perfect; bring to perfection
(4) Fulfill sexually
"Consummate a marriage"
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Etymology
From , past participle of < + (see sum, summation).
Adjective
- Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
- 1900, Guy Wetmore Carryl, "The Singular Sangfroid of Baby Bunting",
- Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like a consummate loon
- 1880, Georges Bernard Shaw, The Irrational Knot, Chapter VII,
- Marmaduke, who had the consummate impudence to reply that
- 1900, Guy Wetmore Carryl, "The Singular Sangfroid of Baby Bunting",
- highly skilled and experienced, fully qualified
Verb
- To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.
- To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch
- To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.
- After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.
- 1890, Giovanni Boccacio, translated by James MacMullen Rigg, The Decameron, Novel 2, part 10,
- in the essay which he made the very first night to serve her so as to consummate the marriage he made a false move,
- To become perfected, receive the finishing touch