Definition of "consult"

consult

/ˈkɒnsʌlt/

noun
plural consults
1. (US, countable) A visit to consult somebody, such as a doctor; a consultation.
2. (obsolete) The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation
3. (obsolete) the result of consultation; determination; decision.
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  [T]he council broke; / And all their grave conſults diſſolv'd in ſmoke.
  a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The First Book of Homer’s Ilias”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, page 431
4. (obsolete) A council; a meeting for consultation.
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  a consult of coquettes
  1730, Jonathan Swift, chapter 5, in Death and Daphne
5. (obsolete) Agreement; concert.
verb
third-person singular simple present consults, present participle consulting, simple past and past participle consulted
1. (intransitive) To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.
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  Let us consult upon to-morrow's business.
  c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene iii]
  All the laws of England have been made by the kings of England, consulting with the nobility and commons.
  1661 (written), published in 1681, Thomas Hobbes, A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England
  SIR,—I have the honour to refer to your letter requesting me to desire Mr. Y. Ching-chong to come and consult with the Municipal Council, as Mr. Wood, the Chairman of that Body had informed you at a personal interview that they fully concurred in the desirability of co-operation with Mr. Ching-chong in improvements in the Honan road draining and lighting.
  1889 January 11 , Kung Taotai, “North Honan Road.”, in M. F. A. Fraser, transl., North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette‎, volume XLII, number 1119, Shanghai, page 37, column 1
2. (intransitive) To advise or offer expertise.
3. (intransitive) To work as a consultant or contractor rather than as a full-time employee of a firm.
4. (transitive) To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of (a person)
  Quotations
  If you have no library commission, consult a lawyer and get from him a careful statement of what can be done under present statutory regulations.
  1899, John Cotton Dana, chapter 1, in A Library Primer
5. (transitive) To refer to (something) for information.
  Quotations
  Which reminds me that I have never remembered from that hour to consult the dictionary upon a selvage.
  1904, Guy Wetmore Carryl, chapter 3, in Far from the Maddening Girls
  Men forgot, or feared, to consult nature, to seek for new truths, to do what the great discoverers of other times had done; they were content to consult libraries.
  1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences
6. (transitive) To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.
  Quotations
  We are […] to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight.
  1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […]
7. (transitive, obsolete) To deliberate upon; to take for.
  Quotations
  Many things were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved.
  1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707
8. (transitive, obsolete) To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.
  Quotations
  Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Habakkuk 2:10

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