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consumate

consumate is the alternative spelling of consummate.

Meaning of consummate

Adjective

consummate (comparative more consummate, superlative most consummate)

  1. Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
    • There lacke many things, that a consummate carde should haue.1527, Robert Thorne, Divers Voyages touching the Dicoverie of America, volume 5
  2. Supremely skilled and experienced; highly accomplished; fully qualified.
    • a consummate sergeant
  3. (obsolete) Consummated, completed, perfected, fully accomplished.
    • Till righteous fate Upon the Wooers' wrongs were consummate.1615, George Chapman, Odyssey
  4. (obsolete) Consummated.
    • I doe but ſtay till your marriage be conſummate, and then go I toward Arragon.1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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Questions about consumate

What is consumate the alternative spelling of?
Consumate is the alternative spelling of consummate.

Words near consumate in the dictionary

  1. consumable
  2. consumables
  3. consumably
  4. consumah
  5. consumahs
  6. consumate
  7. consumation
  8. consume
  9. consumed
  10. consumedly
  11. consumeless

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