consummate.
Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
Meaning & usage
Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
Supremely skilled and experienced; highly accomplished; fully qualified.
a consummate sergeant
Consummated, completed, perfected, fully accomplished.
Consummated.
Where this word comes from
First attested in the beginning of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English consummat(e) (“(past participle) fulfilled, completed; (adjective) perfect, consummate”), borrowed from Latin cōnsummātus, perfect passive participle of cōnsummō (“to sum up, finish, complete”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from con- (“together”) + summa (“a sum”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); see sum, summation. Common participial usage up until Early Modern English.
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 the spouses' first engaging in sexual intercourse.
the marriage was never consummated
After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.
To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.
Where this word comes from
First attested in c. 1525; either inherited from Middle English *consummaten (only attested in compound tenses) or directly borrowed from Latin consummātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
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