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[KON-sah-mayt'] 
transitive verb
1. to bring something to completion: "Despite her love for the apartment, Naomi had been unwilling to consummate the deal until the landlord agreed to reduce her deposit."
2. to achieve or fulfill something
3. to make a marriage complete and valid with an act of sexual intercourse
4. to gratify or fulfill, as a relationship or sexual desire, especially by having intercourse
adjective
[kahn�SUM�it, KON�sah�maht]
5. perfect or complete in every respect; 'consummate happiness'
6. extremely skilled or accomplished; 'a consummate artist'
7. of the highest degree, usually said of a bad quality; complete; utter; 'a consummate bore'
adverb form: consummately
additional adjective forms: consummative, consummatory
noun form: consummator
Origin:
Approximately 1527; from Middle English, 'consummat': fulfilled; borrowed from Latin, 'consummatus,' past participle of 'consummare': to sum up, to finish ('con-': intensive + 'summa': highest degree, sum). In action:
"When famous park planner John Charles Olmsted visited Portland in 1903, he was exhilarated by what he found here. Portland, with its river perch and snowy mountain vistas, must have seemed a place where culture and nature were meant to live in wedded bliss. An Olmsted park plan would, in effect, consummate their union.
Eight years later, however, by the time Olmsted made his last visit to the city, he was exasperated -- deeply disappointed by the city's failure to set aside land for his dreamed-of park system connected by parkways and boulevards. In the intervening years, the price of land had more than quintupled, and Olmsted knew Portland would never realize his plan in its entirety.
Seattle (which shared the cost of Olmsted's 1903 visit) came so much closer to realizing his exact vision, establishing 40 parks and playgrounds according to his ideas. And yet you had to walk away from a symposium on the Olmsted legacy this week feeling overwhelmingly lucky. To be influenced by the Olmsted philosophy was a windfall for any city that even half-heeded him.
Here's what Portland half-heeded: Olmsted's dictate to connect the parks. If today we are beginning to imagine a region where we could easily walk or bike from Portland to every other city in the region, it's because Olmsted is still whispering in our ears."
"Olmsted legacy: Pay it forward," [Editorial] The Oregonian (May 3, 2003).
"The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become, until he goes abroad."
Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910). American author. The Innocents Abroad (1869).
"A long line of mostly small or very small sculptures follows this. Two of them were made in occupied Paris in 1943. Many others date from 1945 on. Some are insubstantial, but others can be regarded as a diary of the discoveries that were part of postwar Europe.
From 1956 on an element of joyful experimentation emerges, as in the exuberant and forthright 'Seated Woman, Cannes,' dated May 1958. Picasso also began to work with sawn and painted plywood, and in 1962 he worked with metal cutouts, bent and painted with multiple colors on both sides.
In situations like this he was always the consummate performer who reveled both in the facts of complication and in the protean dexterity with which he made it seem both lucid and natural. He could also come forward on occasion as a couturier who knew just how to dress his figures simply and well."
John Russell. "Off the Blockbuster Trail, Other Angles on Matisse and Picasso," [Art Review] The New York Times (May 2, 2003).
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