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Consult v. t.

To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of; to apply to for information or instruction; to refer to; as, to consult a physician; to consult a dictionary. "Men forgot, or feared, to consult nature...; they were content to consult libraries."

To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes. "We are... to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight."

To deliberate upon; to take for. (Obs.) "Manythings were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved."

To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive. (Obs.) "Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people."

Consult v. i. (past & past part. consulted; pres. part. consulting) To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer. "Let us consult upon to-morrow's business." "All the laws of England have been made by the kings England, consulting with the nobility and commons."

noun

Consult n.

The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consulation; determination; decision. (Obs.) "The council broke; And all grave consults dissolved in smoke."

A council; a meeting for consultation. (Obs.) "A consult of coquettes."

Agreement; concert (Obs.)

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"Consult" Quotes from Famous Books

... of religious terror consequent on the mutilation of the Hermae, might throw up the scheme altogether. Especially Nicias, exquisitely sensitive in his own religious conscience, and never hearty in his wish for going (a fact perfectly known to the enemy), would hasten to consult his prophets, and might reasonably be expected to renew his opposition on the fresh ground offered to him, or at least to claim delay until the offended gods should have been appeased. We may judge how much such a proceeding was in the line of his ...

— The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III • Various

... Christina. It must have been a pleasant sight to see the powerful monarch of Sweden playing in some magnificent hall of the palace with this merry little girl. Then he forgot that the weight of a kingdom rested upon his shoulders. He forgot that the wise Chancellor Oxenstiern was waiting to consult with him how to render Sweden the greatest nation of Europe. He forgot that the Emperor of Germany and the King of France were plotting together how they might pull him ...

— True Stories from History and Biography • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... ripped in one place, and that the lining was fraying out, a mishap which should be promptly remedied before it spread any further. She was not a very expert needlewoman, and she thought she had better run over the way to consult Mrs. O'Driscoll, then a young matron, esteemed the handiest and most helpful person ...

— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4 • Charles Dudley Warner

... and had written in his wife's name and his own. At last he read in some newspaper that "Mr. and Mrs. John Heron intended shortly to start for the east, where they would spend the summer." Without waiting to consult Beverley he wrote, saying he had read the news, and he and his wife hoped for a visit in their Newport house as soon as it was ready. He had written, not from the office, but from home, with the Park Avenue ...

— The Lion's Mouse • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... impossible for us for a moment to entertain proposals which might involve us in contradictory obligations, and our acceptance of which might be not only injurious to the King's feelings, which we are so much bound to consult, but even prejudicial to the state of his mind. Suppose him to awake out of the sort of dream, in which he now is, and to find that Pitt had, by his own consent and his own act, brought into his Government those very men whom ...

— Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third - From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 (of 2) • The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos

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