Consummately
(Con*sum"mate*ly) adv. In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
Consummation
(Con`sum*ma"tion) n. [L. consummatio.] The act of consummating, or the state of
being consummated; completion; perfection; termination; end (as of the world or of life).
"'T is a consummation
Devoutly to be wished.
Shak.
From its original to its consummation.
Addison.
Quiet consummation have,
And renownéd be thy grave.
Shak.
Consummation of marriage,
completion of the connubial relation by actual cohabition.
Consummative
(Con*sum"ma*tive) a. Serving to consummate; completing. "The final, the consummative
procedure of philosophy." Sir W. Hamilton.
Consumption
(Con*sump"tion) 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.
Consumption of the bowels (Med.),
inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular
disease.
Syn. — Decline; waste; decay. See Decline.
Consumptive
(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
(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.