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

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

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

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

Consulting
(Con*sult"ing), a. That consults.

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

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

Consume
(Con*sume") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Consumed (- sumd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Consuming.] [L. consumere to take wholly or completely, to consume; con- + sumere to take; sub + emere to buy. 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

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.

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

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

3. Agreement; concert [Obs.] Dryden.

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

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