consumpt

consumpt noun: the amount consumed; consumption.

Noun

consumpt (plural consumpts)

(Scotland) The amount consumed; consumption.
- If the home market, which depends upon the consumpt of the many, be injured by a deficiency of the means among the many to buy and consume, and a reduction of the wages of labour by a reduction of the cost of subsistence is clearly a reduction of the means to expend in the home market, it is...1842, Samuel Laing, Notes of a traveller, on the social and political state of France, Prussia, Switzerland, Italy, and Other Parts of Europe
- The brains and the hammers are still on the Clyde, but as long as British shipowners reckon small coal consumpts far above records he must bide his time.1999, Brian D. Osborne, Ronald Armstrong, Mungo's City: A Glasgow Anthology, page 174
(obsolete) Consumer; market.
- If a weaver makes a thousand yards of cloth, and finds a ready and profitable sale for it, at ahigh price, he will of course continue, and others of the same profession, seing him grow rich, will take his workmen at higher wages, and increase the prices of materials, so long as they can get a...1779, Thomas Tod, Observations on American Independency - Volume 9, page 9
- Those farmers that live within one hundred miles of London have the advantage of us for marketing their stock, having so regular a consumpt for every article.1814, Robert Henderson, A Treatise on the Breeding of Swine, and Curing of Bacon

consumpt (third-person singular simple present consumpts, present participle consumpting, simple past and past participle consumpted)

To consume.
- The latter two are one-component materials, which cure by consumpting the humidity of the stone.1997, S. Sánchez-Beitia, C. A. Brebbia, Structural studies, repairs, and maintenance of historical buildings
- In Asia, it is mainly the tropical fish species that are consumpted, such as threadfin (Polynemus indicus), Indian anchovy (Stolephorus indicus), pomfret (Pampus chinensis), and tengirri (Scomberomorus guttatus).2009, Hugo Van Bever, Allergic Diseases in Children, →ISBN

At Gatteville the consumpt of coal during the first fortnight reached nearly 9 tons against an estimate of tons.2013, D. Alan Stevenson, The World's Lighthouses: From Ancient Times to 1820, →ISBN, page 123:
He is willing to leave his plans for “large Poetic works” to that “great maker and marrer of projects - TIME” in order to become “a consumpt for a great deal of idle metre" (Burns 1985: 1. 319).2010, Charles Mahoney, A Companion to Romantic Poetry, →ISBN:
A current source which controls and consumpts the load current depending on the model.2013, Jan Haase, Models, Methods, and Tools for Complex Chip Design, →ISBN, page 111:

Noun
plural	consumpts
Verb
third-person singular present	consumpts
present participle	consumpting
past participle	consumpted
past	consumpted

What does consumpt mean?: Consumpt means the amount consumed; consumption.
How do you use consumpt in a sentence?: At Gatteville the consumpt of coal during the first fortnight reached nearly 9 tons against an estimate of tons.
What part of speech is consumpt?: Consumpt can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of consumpt?: The plural of consumpt is consumpts.

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