v. t. 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men forgot, or feared, to consult nature . . . ; they were content to consult libraries. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are . . . to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To deliberate upon; to take for. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Manythings were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people. Hab. ii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Consulted; p. pr. & vb. n. Consulting. ] [ L. consultare, fr. consulere to consult: cf. f. consulter. Cf. Counsel. ] To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let us consult upon to-morrow's business. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the laws of England have been made by the kings England, consulting with the nobility and commons. Hobbes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consulation; determination; decision. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The council broke;
And all grave consults dissolved in smoke. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A council; a meeting for consultation. [ Obs. ] “A consult of coquettes.” Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Agreement; concert [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an expert who gives advice.
Syn. -- adviser, advisor. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Formed by consultation; resulting from conference. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consultary response (Law), the opinion of a court on a special case. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. consultatio: cf. F. consultation. ] 1. The act of consulting or conferring; deliberation of two or more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thus they doubtful consultations dark
Ended. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A council or conference, as of physicians, held to consider a special case, or of lawyers restained in a cause. [ 1913 Webster ]

Writ of consultation (Law), 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 consultation, find the prohibition ill-founded. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to consultation; having the privilege or right of conference. “A consultative . . . power.” Abp. Bramhall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Formed by, or resulting from, consultation; advisory. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who consults, or asks counsel or information. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That consults. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consulting physician (Med.), a physician who consults with the attending practitioner regarding any case of disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Determined by, or pertaining to, consultation; deliberate; consultative. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that remains in the grace of God sins not by any deliberative, consultive, knowing act. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. jurisconsultus; jus, juris, right + consulere, consultum, to consult: cf. F. jurisconsulte. ] (Law) A man learned in the civil law; an expert in juridical science; a professor of jurisprudence; a jurist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An adviser to business about efficient management practices. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. senatus consultum. ] A decree of the Roman senate. [ 1913 Webster ]

See accommodating.
See aching.
See ailing.
See aiming.
See alarming.
See altering.
See appreciating.
See approving.
See aspiring.
See assisting.
See attempting.
See attending.
See bearing.
See befitting.
See beginning.
See believing.
See bleaching.
See bleeding.
See blemishing.
See blenching.
See blossoming.
See blushing.
See boding.
See branching.
See breathing.
See burning.
See calculating.
See ceasing.
See changing.
See charming.
See communicating.
See complaining.
See complying.
See conceiving.
See conducing.
See confessing.
See conniving.
See consenting.
See considering.
See conspiring.
See consulting.
See consuming.
See contending.
See contriving.
See conversing.
See convincing.
See dawning.
See decaying.
See delaying.
See depending.
See derogating.
See deserving.
See desiring.
See despairing.
See detesting.
See deviating.
See differencing.
See discerning.
See discording.
See discriminating.
See disobliging.
See dispensing.
See dissembling.
See dissolving.
See distinguishing.
See distracting.
See disturbing.
See doubting.
See dreading.
See drooping.
See ebbing.
See echoing.
See edifying.
See ending.
See enduring.
See engaging.
See enjoying.
See entering.
See enterprising.
See entertaining.
See envying.
See existing.
See fadging.
See fading.
See fainting.
See faltering.
See fearing.
See feigning.
See fighting.
See fitting.
See flagging.
See flattering.
See flinching.
See folding.
See forbearing.
See foreboding.
See foreseeing.
See forgiving.
See giving.
See grudging.
See harming.
See heeding.
See hesitating.
See hoping.
See hurting.
See importing.
See imposing.
See improving.
See interesting.
See intermitting.
See intoxicating.
See inviting.
See jarring.
See laboring.
See lingering.
See listening.
See loving.
See meddling.
See meriting.
See mistrusting.
See moving.
See murmuring.
See obliging.
See observing.
See offending.
See opening.
See pardoning.
See paying.
See perceiving.
See performing.
See perishing.
See pitying.
See pleasing.
See possessing.
See preaching.
See prepossessing.
See presuming.
See pretending.
See prevailing.
See prevaricating.
See profiting.
See promising.
See proving.
See quailing.
See questioning.
See reasoning.
See recalling.
See reclining.
See recurring.
See referring.
See reflecting.
See refunding.
See refusing.
See rejoicing.
See relaxing.
See relishing.
See remembering.
See repenting.
See repining.
See reproving.
See repulsing.
See resisting.
See resolving.
See resting.
See returning.
See rewarding.
See sanctifying.
See satisfying.
See searching.
See seeing.
See setting.
See shrinking.
See sinking.
See sleeping.
See slipping.
See slumbering.
See speaking.
See stinting.
See stirring.
See stooping.
See submitting.
See sufficing.
See suiting.
See surging.
See suspecting.
See sweating.
See swerving.
See sympathizing.
See tasting.
See thriving.
See tiring.
See toiling.
See trading.
See trembling.
See trespassing.
See trifling.
See vacillating.
See varying.
See walking.
See wandering.
See waning.
See wasting.
See wavering.
See weeping.
See winking.
See winning.
See withdrawing.
See withering.
See wondering.
See working.
See writing.
See yielding.
----- and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The above classes of words are unlimited in extent, and such compounds may be formed by any writer or speaker at will from almost all the adjectives or participles in the language, excepting those which have a recognized and usual negative correspondent with the prefix -in. No attempt will be made, therefore, to define them all in this Dictionary; many will be omitted from its Vocabulary which are negations of the simple word, and are readily explained by prefixing a not to the latter. Derivatives of these words in -ly and -ness will also, for the most part, be omitted for the same or similar reasons. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will be inserted as separate articles with definitions, the following: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

II. Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Compounds of this last class are given in full in their proper order in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]