Definition of "consummate"

A man of perfect and consummate virtue.

1712 January 23 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SATURDAY, January 12, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number 273; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853

A sweeping and consummate vengeance for the indignity alone should satisfy him.

1859, George Meredith, chapter 5, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall

[…] Marmaduke, who had the consummate impudence to reply that […]

1880, George Bernard Shaw, “Chapter VII”, in The Irrational Knot

Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like a consummate loon

1900, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Singular Sangfroid of Baby Bunting

England's first-half display was consummate in its control, Italy made to look decidedly average as Rice and Jude Bellingham controlled affairs and Kane made history.

2023 March 23, Phil McNulty, “Italy 1-2 England”, in BBC Sport‎

Thus […] he loses sight of the remoter truth, that details perfect in unity, and, contributing to a final purpose, are the sign of the production of a consummate master.

1843, John Ruskin, “Preface to the second edition”, in Modern Painters […] , volumes I (parts I–II), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], page xxxii

Many of these works are of permanent value from their nobility and beauty of style and their intrinsic emotional significance, and all are characterized by high intellectual qualities, and consummate musicianship.

1900, John Comfort Filmore, Pianoforte Music: Its history, with Biographical Sketches and Critical Estimates of its Greatest Masters‎, Presser, page 17

The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, […] ; thus it is in his power to control success.

1910, Lionel Giles (translator), The Art of War, Section IV (originally by Sun Tzu)

Although it was agreed by all that discovery must be consummated by possession and use, […]

1921, James Truslow Adams, The Founding of New England, chapter III

In one word, in perfumery the artist completes and consummates the original natural odour, which he cuts, so to speak, and mounts as a jeweller improves and brings out the water of a precious stone.

1926, chapter X, in Against the Grain, translation of À rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans

[…] in the essay which he made the very first night to serve her so as to consummate the marriage he made a false move, […]

1890, Giovanni Boccaccio, “part 10”, in James MacMullen Rigg, transl., The Decameron, volume 2

In Christian marriage, which implies the restoration, by Christ Himself, of marriage to its original indissolubility, there can never be an absolute divorce, at least after the marriage has been consummated;

1913, Augustinus Lehmkuhl, Walter George Smith, “Divorce”, in Catholic Encyclopedia

In a 1739 case from Laifeng County, Hubei, the widow Zhang Shi (forty-five sui) was killed by her new second husband, Jiang Changyi (forty-three sui), when she refused to consummate her marriage with him.

2000, Matthew H. Sommer, “Widows in the Qing Chastity Cult: The Nexus of Sex and Property in Law and in Women's Lives”, in Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China‎, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, page 187