Consultive
Con‐sult″ive (kŏn‐sŭlt″ĭv), a. Determined by, or pertaining to, consultation; deliberate; consultative.He that remains in the grace of God sins not by any deliberative, consulti...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Consumable
Con‐sum″a‐ble (kŏn‐sūm″ȧ‐b'l), a. Capable of being consumed; that may be destroyed, dissipated, wasted, or spent. “Consumable commodities.” Locke.
Consume
Con‐sume″ (kŏn‐sūm″), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Consumed (–sūmd″); p. pr. & vb. n.Consuming.] [L. consumere to take wholly or completely, to consume; con- + sumere to take; sub + emere...
Consume (2)
Con‐sume″ (kŏn‐sūm″), v. i. To waste away slowly.Therefore, let Benedick, like covered fire,Consume away in sighs.Shak.
Consumedly
Con‐sum″ed‐ly (?), adv. Excessively.He's so consumedly proud of it.Thackeray.
Consumer
Con‐sum″er (–ẽr), n. One who, or that which, consumes; as, the consumer of food.
Consumer's goods
Con‐sum″er's goods (?). (Polit. Econ.) Economic goods that directly satisfy human wants or desires, such as food, clothes, pictures, etc.; — called also consumption goods, or go...
Consumer's surplus
Consumer's surplus. (Polit. econ.) The excess that a purchaser would be willing to pay for a commodity over that he does pay, rather than go without the commodity; — called also...
Consumingly
Con‐sum″ing‐ly, adv. In a consuming manner.
Consummate
Con‐sum″mate (–sŭm″mā̍t), 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 quali...
Consummate (2)
Con″sum‐mate (kŏn″sŭm‐māt or kŏn‐sŭm″māt; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Consummated (–mā′tĕd); p. pr. & vb. n.Consummating (–mā′tĭng).] To bring to completion; to raise to the highes...
Consummately
Con‐sum″mate‐ly (?), adv. In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
Consummation
Con′sum‐ma″tion (kŏn′sŭm‐mā″shŭn), n. [L. consummatio.] The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; completion; perfection; termination; end (as of the world or ...
Consummative
Con‐sum″ma‐tive (?), a. Serving to consummate; completing. “The final, the consummative procedure of philosophy.” Sir W. Hamilton.
Consumption
Con‐sump″tion (?; 215), n. [L. consumptio: cf. F. consomption.] 1. The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.Every new advance of the price to the ...
Consumptive
Con‐sump″tive (?), a. [Cf. F. consomptif.] 1. Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.It is not consumptive or our...
Consumptive (2)
Con‐sump″tive, n. One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.
Consumptively
Con‐sump″tive‐ly, adv. In a way tending to or indication consumption. Beddoes.
Consumptiveness
Con‐sump″tive‐ness, n. A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption.
Contabescent
Con′ta‐bes″cent (?), a. [L. contabescenc, p. pr. of contabescere.] Wasting away gradually. Darwin.— Con‐ta‐bes″cence (#), n.
Contact
Con″tact (kŏn″tăkt), n. [L. contactus, fr. contingere, -tactum, to touch on all sides. See Contingent.] 1. A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.2. (Geom.) ...
Contaction
Con‐tac″tion (–tăk″shŭn), n. Act of touching.
Contagion
Con‐ta″gion (–tā″jŭn), n. [L. contagio: cf. F. contagion. See Contact.] 1. (Med.) The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact.☞ The t...
Contagioned
Con‐ta″gioned (?), a. Affected by contagion.
Contagionist
Con‐ta″gion‐ist, n. One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever.
Contagious
Con‐ta″gious (?), a. [L. contagiosus: cf. F. contagieux.] 1. (Med.) Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.2. Conveyi...
Contagious disease
Con‐ta″gious dis‐ease″. (Med.) A disease communicable by contact with a patient suffering from it, or with some secretion of, or object touched by, such a patient. Most such dis...