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.
   [1913 Webster]

         The little band held the post with consummate tenacity.
                                                  --Motley
   [1913 Webster]

	

	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.
   [1913 Webster]

         To consummate this business happily.     --Shak.
   [1913 Webster]

	

	consummate
     adj 1: 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)]
     v 1: of marriages
     2: make perfect; bring to perfection

	

	185 Moby Thesaurus words for "consummate":
   able, absolute, accomplish, accomplished, achieve, acmatic,
   all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, apical,
   archetypical, arrant, attain, born, broad-based, cap, capital,
   chief, classic, classical, clean, clear, climax, compass, complete,
   comprehensive, conclude, congenital, crass, crest, crown,
   culminate, deal with, decided, deep-dyed, definitive, developed,
   discharge, dispatch, dispose of, do, do the job, do the trick,
   downright, dyed-in-the-wool, effect, effectuate, egregious, enact,
   end, execute, exemplary, exhaustive, expert, faultless, fetch,
   finish, finished, flagrant, flawless, frost, fulfill,
   fully developed, fully realized, gifted, glaring, gross, halt,
   head, headmost, highest, ice, impeccable, inimitable, intensive,
   intolerable, knock off, make, manage, masterful, masterly, mature,
   matured, maximal, maximum, meridian, meridional, model, omnibus,
   omnipresent, out-and-out, outright, outtop, overarch, overmost,
   overtop, paramount, peak, peerless, perfect, perfected, perform,
   pervasive, plain, plumb, polish off, polished, positive, practiced,
   precious, preeminent, produce, proficient, profound, pronounced,
   proper, pure, put away, quintessential, radical, rank, realize,
   refined, regular, ripe, ripened, shattering, sheer, shocking,
   skilled, stark, stark-staring, straight, succeed, summital, superb,
   superlative, supreme, surmount, surpassing, sweeping, take care of,
   talented, terminate, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing,
   through-and-through, tip, tip-top, top, top off, topmost, total,
   trained, transcendent, turn the trick, ubiquitous, ultimate,
   unbearable, unconditional, unconscionable, undeniable, unequivocal,
   universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, unreserved,
   unrestricted, unspoiled, unsurpassable, upmost, uppermost, utter,
   veritable, vertical, virtuosic, wholesale, wind up, work, work out,
   wrap up, zenithal

	

	CONSUMMATE. What is completed. A right is said to be initiate, when it is not

complete; and when it is perfected, it is consummated. 
	

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