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<blockquote>Thus they doubtful <b>consultations</b> dark Ended. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A council or conference, as of physicians, held to consider a special case, or of lawyers restained in a cause.</def>

<cs><col>Writ of consultation</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>a writ by which a cause, improperly removed by prohibition from one court to another, is returned to the court from which it came; -- so called because the judges, on <i>consultation<i>, find the prohibition ill-founded.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Con*sult"a*tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to consultation; having the privilege or right of conference.</def> "A <i>consultative</i> . . . power."

<i>Abp. Bramhall.</i>

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<hw>Con*sult"a*to*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Formed by, or resulting from, consultation; advisory.</def>

<i>Bancroft.</i>

<h1>Consulter</h1> <Xpage=311>

<hw>Con*sult"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who consults, or asks counsel or information.</def>

<h1>Consulting</h1> <Xpage=311>

<hw>Con*sult"ing</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>That consults.</def>

<cs><col>Consulting physician</col> <fld>(Med.)</fld>, <cd>a physician who consults with the attending practitioner regarding any case of disease.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Con*sult"ive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Determined by, or pertaining to, consultation; deliberate; consultative.</def>

<blockquote>He that remains in the grace of God sins not by any deliberative, <b>consultive</b>, knowing act. <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Consumable</h1> <Xpage=311>

<hw>Con*sum"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being consumed; that may be destroyed, dissipated, wasted, or spent.</def> "<i>Consumable</i> commodities."

<i>Locke.</i>

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<hw>Con*sume"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p.p.</tt> <er>Consumed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p.pr. & vb.n.</tt> <er>Consuming</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>consumere</ets> to take wholly or complectely, to consume; <ets>con-</ets> + <ets>sumere</ets> to take; <ets>sub + emere</ets> to buv. See <er>Redeem</er>.]</ety> <def>To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.</def>

<blockquote>If he were putting to my house the brand That shall <b>consume</b> it. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth <b>consume</b>. <i>Matt. vi. 20 (Rev. Ver. ).</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Let me alone . . . that I may <b>consume</b> them. <i>Ex. xxxii. 10.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To destroy; swallow up; ingulf; absorb; waste; exhaust; spend; expend; squander; lavish; dissipate.</syn>

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<hw>Con*sume"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To waste away slowly.</def>