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Definition of Consummative
1. a. Serving to consummate; completing.
Definition of Consummative
1. Adjective. Serving to consummate or complete. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Consummative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Consummative
Literary usage of Consummative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... of idolatry is thus answered by St. Thomas: "The cause of idolatry is twofold:
dispositive on the part of man ; consummative on the part of the demons. ..."
2. A History of Germanic Private Law by Rudolf Hübner, Francis Samuel Philbrick, Paul Vinogradoff, William Emanuel Walz (1918)
"Indeed, it has been shown that already in the Middle Ages the book entry became
in some cities the essential and consummative part of the act of transfer.1 ..."
3. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... perfective, consummative, complementary. complex, a. 1. .See COMPOSITE. 2.
complicated, complicate, intricate, perplexed, involute (rare), ..."
4. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1839)
"... two distinguishable services, the one succeeding the other, are demanded at
the hands of the judges the one the initiative, the other the consummative. ..."
5. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"... confounded—united in one and the same set of hands—and of the legislative
power itself, the two elementary powers, the initiative and the consummative. ..."
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