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consummation|kɒnsəˈmeɪʃən|
Forms: 5 -sommacion, -sumacyon, 5–6 -su(m)macion, 6 -acyon, 6– consummation.
[a. OF. consommation (-somation, -sumation), ad. L. consummātiōn-em, n. of action f. consummāre to complete, consummate. Finally conformed to the L. spelling.]
1. The action of completing, accomplishing, fulfilling, finishing, or ending.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ii. vii. (1495) 34 After purgacion foloweth illumynacion, perfeccion and consummacion. a1400Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 198 All that hath herd this consummacion Of this pagent. 1490Caxton Eneydos v. (1890) 22 For the consommacion of the said sacrifyce. 1546in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. iii. 129 The ereccion & consumacion of the newe hospytall in Smythfeld for the pore. a1665J. Goodwin Filled w. the Spirit (1867) 202 Between the beginning and consummation or finishing of it. 1667Pepys Diary (1879) IV. 467 He did expect to hear from Bredah the consummation of the peace. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. III. xx. 298 The king..urged the instant consummation of the treaty.
b. The completion of marriage by sexual intercourse.
c1530in Fiddes Life Wolsey (1726) ii. 171 Nothing was so muche desyred of bothe there parents, as the Consummation of the said act. 1548Act 2–3 Edw. VI, c. 23 §2 Sentence for Matrimony, commanding Solemnization, Cohabitation, Consummation and Tractation as becometh Man and Wife to have. 1706Farquhar Recr. Officer i. i, She would have the wedding before consummation. 1879M. Pattison Milton 58 The suggestion..is that Milton's young wife refused him the consummation of the marriage.
2. Completion, conclusion, as an event or condition; end; death.
1475Caxton Jason 4 They visyted temples and oracles unto the consummacion of their dayes. 1483― Cato H vij, Dethe is consumacyon and ende of al payne and laboure. 1611Shakes. Cymb. iv. ii. 280 Quiet consumation haue, And renowned be thy graue. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. ix. 217 [They] held that it put a total Consummation unto things in this lower World. 1795Southey Vis. Maid Orleans i. 180 This is his consummation! 1840Mrs. Browning Drama of Exile, Death's consummation crowns completed life.
b. esp. in consummation of the world, consummation of all things, etc. (Sometimes with the subsidiary notion of accomplishment of a ‘dispensation’, or of destruction.)
1541Becon News out of Heaven Wks. (1843) 55 He will be with you even to the very consummation and end of the world. 1585Abp. Sandys Serm. (1841) 352 The time..of the general consummation of all things is left uncertain. 1629Symmer Spir. Posie i. vi. 23 At the consummation of the world, when the number of the Elect shall be perfected. 1777Priestley Matt. & Spir. (1782) I. xvii. 201 At the general consummation of all things. 1875Lyell Princ. Geol. I. i. iii. 45 The decline of our System, and its future consummation by fire. 1882Farrar Early Chr. II. 262 Anything short of the final consummation.
3. The action of perfecting; the condition of full and perfect development, perfection, acme.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 14 b, The consummacyon & perfeccyon of holynes. 1552Bk. Com. Prayer, Burial, That we..may haue our perfect consummacion and blisse. 1713Steele Englishman No. 10. 64 It is the Consummation of all Crimes to be impudent. 1827Hare Guesses Ser. ii. (1873) 548 The consummation of Heathen virtue. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. 93 Such return..is the consummation of the creature.
4. A condition in which desires, aims, and tendencies are fulfilled; crowning or fitting end; goal.
1602Shakes. Ham. iii. i. 63 'Tis a consummation Deuoutly to be wish'd. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xi, The probability of Miss Nickleby's arriving at this happy consummation. 1851Carlyle Sterling ii. ii. (1872) 91 Radicalism..had come to its Consummation, and vanished from him in a tragic manner. 1886Morley Pattison's Mem. Crit. Misc. III. 137 Nothing..was done towards making the desired consummation a certainty. |
