CONSUMMATE

consummate (k<<schwa>>n-s<<schwa>>m-it orkahn-s<<schwa>>-mit), adj. Completed; fully accomplished. • Consummate was often used at common law to describe the status of a contract or an estate, such as the trans-formation of a husband’s interest in his wife’s inheritance from that of a tenant by the curtesy initiate to a tenant by curtesy consummate upon the wife’s death (assuming that a child had been born during the marriage). See curtesy consummate under CURTESY. — consummation,n.

consummate (kon-s<<schwa>>-mayt), vb.1. To bring to completion; esp., to make (a marriage) complete by sexual intercourse. 2. To achieve; to fulfill. 3. To perfect; to carry to the highest degree. [Blacks Law 8th]