Con*sult" (?), 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 consel; to deliberate together; to confer.
Let us consult upon to-morrow's business.
Shak.
All the laws of England have been made by the kings England, consulting with the nobility and commons.
Hobbes.
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Con*sult", 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.
Men fergot, or feared, to consult . . . ; they were content to consult liberaries.
Whewell.
2. 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.
L'Estrange.
3. To deliberate upon; to take for. [Obs.]
Manythings were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved.
Clarendon.
4. To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive. [Obs.]
Thou hast consulted shame to thy use by cutting off many people.
Hab. ii. 10.
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Con*sult" (? ∨ ?), n. 1. 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.
Dryden.
2. A council; a meeting for consultation. [Obs.] "A consult of coquettes."
Swift.
3. Agreement; concert [Obs.]
Dryden.
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