consummate

adj

1. Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.

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

   “A man of perfect and consummate virtue.”

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

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

   “Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like a consummate loon”

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

   “a consummate sergeant”

   “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.”

   “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.”

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

   “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)Consummated, completed, perfected, fully accomplished.

   “Till righteous fate Upon the Wooers' wrongs were consummate.”

4. (obsolete)Consummated.

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

verb

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

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

   “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.
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.”

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

   “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;”

   “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.