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conˈsummatory, a. rare.
[f. prec.: see -ory.]
1. = consummative.
1648‘T. Verax’ Relat. & Observ. i. 147 Secret Examinations..some preparatory only..and some consummatory, laying the Axe to the root at the first blow. 1817G. S. Faber Eight Dissert. (1845) I. 357 Unless we allow the preparatory and shadowy Levitical Church to be privileged infinitely above the consummatory and substantial Christian Church.
2. Physiol. and Psychol. Complementing, or relating to the complementing of, preparatory responses to a situation that are of vital importance to the organism; not instrumental, but satisfying in itself.
1906C. S. Sherrington Integrative Action Nerv. System ix. 329 ‘Distance-receptors’ induce anticipatory or precurrent reactions, that is, precurrent to final or consummatory reactions. Ibid. 332 The consummatory acts led up to are such—e.g. seizure of prey, escape from enemies, attainment of sexual conjugation, etc.—as involve the very existence of the individual and the species. 1918R. S. Woodworth Dynam. Psychol. ii. 40 A consummatory reaction is one of direct value to the animal—one directly bringing satisfaction—such as eating or escaping from danger. 1932E. C. Tolman Purposive Behav. xviii. 272 The final state of physiological quiescence to be reached by commerce with the consummatory object. 1951G. Humphrey Thinking vii. 188 A train of thought may be concluded without overt consummatory action. 1957New Biol. XXIV. 122 The variable introductory phase which leads to a stereotyped response, or consummatory act, or to a consummatory situation, is called appetitive behaviour. |