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unconˈsummate, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b and 5 b. Cf. next.]
Not consummated; uncompleted.
1609Bible (Douay) Deut. xxiv. comm., Nothing..can loose the band of Mariage..unconsummate, but death, or solemne vow in an approved rule of religion. a1643W. Cartwright Siege iii. i, I cannot then retire me from the sin, Though I do leave the action unconsummate. 1702S. Parker tr. Cicero's De Finibus iii. 196 Whatever Action bears the Name of a Compleat Good one is a Duty perform'd, as there is also Duty Unconsummate. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. ix. 421 The unconsummate blow, Adroitly baulked by her. |