consult
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French consulte. In sense “council”, it represents Latin cōnsultum, Italian consulto; and it may have been often taken as a direct formation from the verb.
Inflected forms:
form: consults
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: consults
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: consulting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: consulted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: consulted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A visit to consult somebody, such as a doctor; a consultation.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
gloss: The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: For firſt upon conſult of reaſon, there will bee found no eaſie aſſurance for to faſten a materiall or temperamentall propriety upon any nation; […]
gloss: The result of consultation; determination; decision.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: [T]he council broke; / And all their grave conſults diſſolv'd in ſmoke.
gloss: A council; a meeting for consultation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: a consult of coquettes
gloss: Agreement; concert.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer; to advise.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Let us consult upon to-morrow's business.
1661 (written), published in 1681, Thomas Hobbes, A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England
All the laws of England have been made by the kings of England, consulting with the nobility and commons.
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.
gloss: To advise or offer expertise.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Well, I have a trade of my own. I suppose I am the only one in the world. I’m a consulting detective, if you can understand what that is.
gloss: To work as a consultant or contractor rather than as a full-time employee of a firm.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of (a person)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To refer to (something) for information.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Which reminds me that I have never remembered from that hour to consult the dictionary upon a selvage.
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.
gloss: To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We are […] to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight.
gloss: To deliberate upon; to take for.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Many things were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved.
gloss: To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people.
Synonyms: refer
Related words: consultant
consultation
Derived words: consultability
consultable
consultancy
consultative
consultee
consulter
consulting room
consultive
consultor
consultress
e-consulting
nonconsulted
nonconsulting
reconsult
teleconsult
unconsulted
unconsulting
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