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consummative, a.|ˈkɒnsəmeɪtɪv, kənˈsʌmətɪv|
[ad. L. type *consummātīv-us (prob. used in med. or mod.L.), f. consummāt- ppl. stem of consummāre to consummate + -ive.]
Having the faculty of consummating, tending to consummate; completory, final.
1683E. Hooker Pref. Ep. Pordage's Mystic Div. 71 Peace and Truth (a Conjunction which I wold ever call Copulativ, and make, if I could, perpetuously Consummativ). 1702S. Parker tr. Tully's de Finibus 225 The Amplitudines Bonorum, or Consummative Goods. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. vi. (1859) I. 98 This mental reconstruction is, therefore, the final, the consummative procedure of philosophy. 1852― Discuss. (1853) 21 note, The consummative union of the two had not been attempted.
Hence consummatively adv., consummativeness n.
1624Donne Serm. xvii. 163 If we speak effectually and consummatively. 1653Gauden Hierasp. 279 There is nothing usefull or commendable in any other way..which is not inclusively, eminently, and consummatively in a well-ordered Episcopacy. 1701Beverley Apoc. Quest. 9 Of the Amplitude, and Consummativeness of it. |