consummateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

First attested in the beginning of the 15 century, in 中期英語; inherited from 中期英語 consummat(e) (“(past participle) fulfilled, completed; (adjective) perfect, consummate”), borrowed from Latin cōnsummātus, perfect passive participle of cōnsummō (“to sum up, finish, complete”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from con- (“together”) + summa (“a sum”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); see sum, summation. Common participial usage up until Early Modern English.

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: kŏn'səmət, kŏn'syo͝omət, kənsŭm'ĭt, IPA: /ˈkɒnsəmət/, /ˈkɒnsjʊmət/, /kənˈsʌmɪt/
• (米国発音) enPR: kŏn'səmət, kənsŭm'ĭt, IPA: /ˈkɑnsəmət/, /kənˈsʌmɪt/

形容詞

consummate (comparative more consummate, superlative most consummate)

1. Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.

   Synonyms: absolute, complete, perfect, sheer, total, utter; see also Thesaurus:total

   • 1527, Robert Thorne, Divers Voyages touching the Dicoverie of America, volume 5:

     There lacke many things, that a consummate carde should haue.

   • 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, →OCLC:

     A man of perfect and consummate virtue.

     The spelling has been modernized.

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

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

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

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

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

     Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like a consummate loon

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

     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.

2. Supremely skilled and experienced; highly accomplished; fully qualified.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:skilled

   a consummate sergeant

   • 1843, [John Ruskin], “Preface to the second edition”, in Modern Painters […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page xxxii:

     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.

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

     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.

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

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

   • 2022 December 28, Jori Finkel, “Making Intergalactic and Intergenerational Art”, in The New York Times‎:

     I didn’t understand why at the time, but Jasmine is such a consummate performer and had already developed her idea of the role.

   • 2021 March 10, Gia Kourlas, “Ballet Is Hard Enough. What Happens When You Lose a Year?”, in The New York Times‎:

     At Ballet Theater, [James] Whiteside is in demand. His classical variations are high-octane sprints; he lifts ballerinas like they’re feathers. His consummate athleticism allows him to be the versatile artist he is: modern or dashing, playful or tragic.

3. (obsolete, as a participle)
   1. Consummated, completed, perfected, fully accomplished.
      • 1615, George Chapman, Odyssey:

        Till righteous fate Upon the Wooers' wrongs were consummate.

   2. (of a marriage) Consummated.
      • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 110, column 2:

        I doe but ſtay till your marriage be conſummate, and then go I toward Arragon.

派生語

語源 2

First attested in c. 1525; either inherited from 中期英語 *consummaten (only attested in compound tenses) or directly borrowed from Latin consummātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: kŏn'səmāt, kŏn'syo͝omāt, IPA: /ˈkɒnsəmeɪt/, /ˈkɒnsjʊmeɪt/
• (米国発音) enPR: kŏn'səmāt, IPA: /ˈkɑnsəmeɪt/

動詞

consummate (third-person singular simple present consummates, present participle consummating, simple past and past participle consummated)

1. (transitive) To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.

   Synonyms: complete, finish, round off; see also Thesaurus:end

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

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

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

     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.

2. (transitive) To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch.

   Synonyms: complete, perfect, top off

3. (transitive) To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.

   the marriage was never consummated

   After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.

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

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

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

     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;

   • 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, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 187:

     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.

4. (intransitive) To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.

   Synonyms: come to a head, mature, ripe

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Further reading

• “consummate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “consummate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “consummate”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “consummate”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “consummate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “consummate” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.
• “consummate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.