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v. i. [imp. & p. p. CONSULTED; p. pr. & vb. n. CONSULTING.] [Lat. consulere, consultum.] To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate.
Let us consult upon to-morrow’s business. Shak.
All the laws of England have been made by the kings of England, consulting with the nobility and commons. Hobbes.
v. t. [Lat. consultare, v. intens. of consulere; Fr. consulter.] 1. To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of; to apply or recur to for information or instruction. Men forgot, or feared, to consult nature . . .; they were content to consult libraries. Whewell. 2. To have reference or respect to, in judging or acting; to decide or to act in favor of; to regard. We are . . . to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament or delight. L’Estrange. 3. To deliberate upon; to take counsel for. Many things were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved. Clarendon. 4. To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive. Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people. Hab. ii. 10.
(Synop., § 130), n. [Lat. consultus.] 1. The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation. [Obs.] The council broke, And all their grave consults dissolved in smoke. Dryden. 2. A council or deliberative assembly. [Obs.] “A consult of coquettes.” Swift.