Chapter 329

Con*sult" , v. t. 1. To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of; to apply to for information or instruction; to refer to; as, to consult a physician; to consult a dictionary.

Men fergot, or feared, to consult . . . ; they were content to consult liberaries. Whewell.

2. To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes .

We are . . . to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight. L'Estrange.

3. To deliberate upon; to take for. [Obs.]

Manythings were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved. Clarendon.

4. To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive. [Obs.]

Thou hast consulted shame to thy <?/use by cutting off many people. Hab. ii. 10.

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Con*sult" (? &or; ?) , n. 1. The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consulation; determination; decision. [Obs.]

The council broke; And all grave consults dissolved in smoke. Dryden.

2. A council; a meeting for consultation. [Obs.] "A consult of coquettes."

Swift.

3. Agreement; concert [Obs.]

Dryden.

Consultary <Xpage=311>

Con*sult"a*ry (?) , a. Formed by consultation; resulting from conference.

Consultary response (Law) , the opinion of a court on a special case.

Wharton.

Consultation <Xpage=311>

Con`sul*ta"tion (?) , n. [L. consultatio : cf. F. consultation .] 1. The act of consulting or conferring; deliberation of two or more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision.

Thus they doubtful consultations dark Ended. Milton.

2. A council or conference, as of physicians, held to consider a special case, or of lawyers restained in a cause.

Writ of consultation (Law) , a writ by which a cause, improperly removed by prohibition from one court to another, is returned to the court from which it came; -- so called because the judges, on consultation , find the prohibition ill-founded.

Consultative <Xpage=311>

Con*sult"a*tive (?) , a. Pertaining to consultation; having the privilege or right of conference. "A consultative . . . power."

Abp. Bramhall.

Consultatory <Xpage=311>

Con*sult"a*to*ry (?) , a. Formed by, or resulting from, consultation; advisory.

Bancroft.

Consulter <Xpage=311>

Con*sult"er (?) , n. One who consults, or asks counsel or information.

Consulting <Xpage=311>

Con*sult"ing , a. That consults.

Consulting physician (Med.) , a physician who consults with the attending practitioner regarding any case of disease.

Consultive <Xpage=311>

Con*sult"ive (?) , a. Determined by, or pertaining to, consultation; deliberate; consultative.

He that remains in the grace of God sins not by any deliberative, consultive , knowing act. Jer. Taylor.

Consumable <Xpage=311>

Con*sum"a*ble (?) , a. Capable of being consumed; that may be destroyed, dissipated, wasted, or spent. " Consumable commodities."

Locke.

Consume <Xpage=311>

Con*sume" (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p.p. Consumed (?) ; p.pr. & vb.n. Consuming .] [L. consumere to take wholly or complectely, to consume; con- + sumere to take; sub + emere to buv. See Redeem .] To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

If he were putting to my house the brand That shall consume it. Shak.

Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume . Matt. vi. 20 (Rev. Ver. ).

Let me alone . . . that I may consume them. Ex. xxxii. 10.

Syn. -- To destroy; swallow up; ingulf; absorb; waste; exhaust; spend; expend; squander; lavish; dissipate.

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Con*sume" (?) , v. i. To waste away slowly.

Therefore, let Renedick, like covered fire, Consume away in sighs. Shak.

Consumedly <Xpage=311>

Con*sum"ed*ly (?) , adv. Excessively. [Low]

He's so consumedly pround of it. Thackeray.

Consumer <Xpage=311>

Con*sum"er (?) , n. One who, or that which, consumes; as, the consumer of food .

Consumingly <Xpage=311>

Con*sum"ing*ly , adv. In a consuming manner.

Consummate <Xpage=311>

Con*sum"mate (?) , 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.

The little band held the post with consummate tenacity. Motley

Consummate <Xpage=311>

Con"sum*mate (?; 277) , v. t. [ imp & p. p. Consummated (#) ; p. pr & vb. n. Consummating (#) .] To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.

To consummate this business happily. Shak.

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Con*sum"mate*ly (?) , adv. In a consummate manner; completely.

T. Warton.

Consummation <Xpage=311>

Con`sum*ma"tion (?) , n. [L. consummatio .] The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; completed; completion; perfection; termination; end (as of the world or of life).

"Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. Shak.

From its original to its consummation . Addison.

Quiet consummation have, And renown<?/d be thy grave. Shak.

Consummation of marrige , completion of the connubial relation by actual cohabition.

Consummative <Xpage=311>

Con*sum"ma*tive (?) , a. Serving to consummate; completing. "The final, the consummative procedure of philosophy."

Sir W. Hamilton.

Consumption <Xpage=311>

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 consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption . Burke.

2. The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.

3. (Med.) A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption . <-- tuberculosis -->

Consumption of the bowels (Med.) , inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.

Syn. -- Decline; waste; decay. See Decline .

Consumptive <Xpage=311>

Con*sump"tive (?) , a. [Cf. F. consomptif .] 1. Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.

It [prayer] is not consumptive or our time. Sharp.

A long consumptive war. Addison.

2. (Med.) Affected with, or inclined to, consumption.

The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed. Dryden.

Consumptive <Xpage=311>

Con*sump"tive , n. One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives .

Consumptively <Xpage=311>

Con*sump"tive*ly , adv. In a way tending to or indication consumption.

Beddoes.

Consumptiveness <Xpage=311>

Con*sump"tive*ness , n. A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption.

Contabescent <Xpage=311>

Con`ta*bes"cent (?) , a. [L. contabescenc , p.pr. of contabescere .] Wasting away gradually.

Darwin.

- Con*ta*bes"cence (#) , n.

Contact <Xpage=311>

Con"tact (?) , 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.) The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction.

3. (Mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.

Raymond.

Contact level , a delicate level so pivoted as to tilt when two parts of a measuring apparatus come into contact with each other; -- used in precise determinations of lengths and in the accurate graduation of instruments.

Contaction <Xpage=311>

Con*tac"tion (?) , n. Act of touching. [Obs.]

Contagion <Xpage=311>

Con*ta"gion (?) , 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.

&hand; The term has been applied by some to the action of miasmata arising from dead animal or vegetable matter, bogs, fens, etc., but in this sense it is now abandoned.

Dunglison.

And will he steal out of his wholesome bed To dare the vile contagion of the night? Shak.

2. That which serves as a medium or agency to transmit disease; a virus produced by, or exhalation proceeding from, a diseased person, and capable of reproducing the disease.

3. The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm . "The contagion of example."

Eikon Basilike.

When lust . . . Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion . Milton.

4. Venom; poison. [Obs.] "I'll touch my point with this contagion ."

Shak.

Syn. -- See Infection .

Contagioned <Xpage=311>

Con*ta"gioned (?) , a. Affected by contagion.

Contagionist <Xpage=311>

Con*ta"gion*ist , n. One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever.

Contagious <Xpage=311>

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. Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air .

3. Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar emotions or conduct in others.

His genius rendered his courage more contagious . Wirt.

The spirit of imitation is contagious . Ames.

Syn. -- Contagious , Infectious . These words have been used in very diverse senses; but, in general, a contagious disease has considered as one which is caught from another by contact, by the breath, by bodily effluvia, etc.; while an infectious disease supposes some entirely different cause acting by a hidden influence, like the miasma of prison ships, of marshes, etc., infecting the system with disease. "This distinction, though not universally admitted by medical men, as to the literal meaning, of the words, certainly applies to them in their figurative use. Thus we speak of the contagious influence of evil associates; their contagion of bad example, the contagion of fear, etc., when we refer to transmission by proximity or contact. On the other hand, we speak of infection by bad principles, etc., when we consider anything as diffused by some hidden influence.

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Con*ta"gious*ly , adv. In a contagious manner.

Contagiousness <Xpage=311>

Con*ta"gious*ness , n. Quality of being contagious.

Contagium <Xpage=311>

Con*ta"gi*um (?) , n. [L.] Contagion; contagious matter. " Contagium of measles."

Tyndall.

Contain <Xpage=311>

Con*tain" (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p.p. Contained (?) ; p.pr. & vb.n. Containing .] [OE. contenen , conteinen , F. contenir , fr. L. continere , -tentum ; con- + tenere to hold. See Tenable , and cf. Countenance .] 1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.

Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18.

When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak.

What thy stores contain bring forth. Milton.

2. To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks .

3. To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds. [Obs., exept as used reflexively.]

The king's person contains the unruly people from evil occasions. Spenser.

Fear not, my lord: we can contain ourselves. Shak.

Contain <Xpage=311>

Con*tain" , v. i. To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

But if they can not contain , let them marry. 1 Cor. vii. 9.

Containable <Xpage=311>

Con*tain"a*ble (?) , a. Capable of being contained or comprised.

Boyle.

Containant <Xpage=311>

Con*tain"ant (?) , n. A container.

Container <Xpage=311>

Con*tain"er (?) , n. One who, or that which, contains.

Containment <Xpage=311>

Con*tain"ment (?) , n. That which is contained; the extent; the substance. [Obs.]

The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.

Contaminable <Xpage=311>

Con*tam"i*na*ble (?) , a. Capable of being contaminated.

Contaminate <Xpage=311>

Con*tam"i*nate (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p.p. Contaminated (?) ; p.pr. & vb.n. Contaminating (?) .] [L. contaminatus , p.p. of contaminare to bring into contact, to contaminate, fr. contamen contagion, for contagmen ; con- + root of tangere to touch. See Contact .] To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.

Shall we now Contaminate our figures with base bribes? Shak.

I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated . Goldsmith.

Syn. -- To pollute; defile; sully; taint; tarnish; soil; stain; corrupt.

Contaminate <Xpage=311>

Con*tam"i*nate (?) , a. Contaminated; defiled; polluted; tainted. " Contaminate drink."

Daniel.

Contamination <Xpage=311>

Con*tam`i*na"tion (?) , n. [L. contaminatio .] The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.

Contamitive <Xpage=311>

Con*tam"i*tive (?) , a. Tending or liable to contaminate.

Contango <Xpage=311>

Con*tan"go (?) , n. ; pl. Contangoes (#) . [Prob. a corruption of contingent .] 1. (Stock Exchange) The premium or interest paid by the buyer to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day. [Eng.]

2. (Law) The postponement of payment by the buyer of stock on the payment of a premium to the seller. See Backwardation .

N. Biddle.

Contection <Xpage=311>

Con*tec"tion (?) , n. [L. contegere , -tectum , to cover up.] A covering. [Obs.]

Sir T. Browne.

Contek <Xpage=311>

Con"tek (?) , n. [OE. conteck , conteke , contake , perh. a corruption either of contact or contest .] 1. Quarrel; contention; contest. [Obs.]

Contek with bloody knife. Chaucer.

2 <Xpage=311>

2 Contumely; reproach. [Obs.]

Wyclif.

Contemn <Xpage=311>

Con*temn" (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p.p. Contemned (?) ; p.pr. & vb.n. Contemning (? &or; ?) .] [L. contemnere , -temptum ; con- + temnere to slight, despise: cf. OF. contemner .] To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn.

Thy pompous delicacies I contemn . Milton.

One who contemned divine and human laws. Dryden.

Syn. -- To despise; scorn; disdain; spurn; slight; neglect; underrate; overlook. -- To Contemn , Despise , Scorn , Disdain . Contemn is the generic term, and is applied especially to objects, qualities, etc., which are deemed contemptible, and but rarely to individuals; to despise is to regard or treat as mean, unbecoming, or worthless; to scorn is stronger, expressing a quick, indignant contempt; disdain is still stronger, denoting either unwarrantable pride and haughtiness or an abhorrence of what is base.

Contemner <Xpage=311>

Con*tem"ner (? &or; ?) , n. One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. " Contemners of the gods."

South.

Contemningly <Xpage=311>

Con*tem"ning*ly , adv. Contemptuously. [R.]

Contemper <Xpage=311>

Con*tem"per (?) , v. t. [L. contemperare , -temperatum ; con- + temperare to temper. Cf. Contemperate .] To modify or temper; to allay; to qualify; to moderate; to soften. [Obs.]

The antidotes . . . have allayed its bitterness and contempered its malignancy. Johnson.

Contemperate <Xpage=311>

Con*tem"per*ate (?) , v. t. [See Contemper .] To temper; to moderate. [Obs.]

Moisten and contemperate the air. Sir T. Browne.

Contemperation <Xpage=311>

Con*tem`per*a"tion (?) , n. 1. The act of tempering or moderating. [Obs.]

Sir T. Browne.

2. Proportionate mixture or combination. " Contemperation of light and shade."

Boyle.

Contemperature <Xpage=311>

Con*tem"per*a*ture (?; 135) , n. The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature. [Obs.]

The different contemperature of the elements. SDouth.

Contemplance <Xpage=311>

Con*tem"plance (?) , n. Contemplation. [Obs.]

Chaucer.

Contemplant <Xpage=311>

Con*tem"plant (?) , a. [L. contemplans , p.pr.] Given to contemplation; meditative. [R.]

Coleridge.

Contemplate <Xpage=311>

Con"tem*plate (?; 277) , v. t. [ imp & p. p. Contemplated (# &or; #) ; p.pr & vb. n. Contemplating .] [L. contemplatus , p.p. of contemplari to contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the augur. See Temple .] 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study.