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noun (rfc-level, Noun at L4+ not in L3 POS section)
- (obsolete): The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consulation; determination; decision.
- The council broke; And all grave consults dissolved in smoke. -Dryden.
- (obsolete): A council; a meeting for consultation.
- A of coquettes. -Swift.
- (obsolete): Agreement; concert.
- : A visit, e.g. to a doctor; a consultation.
verb
- (intransitive) To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take consel; to deliberate together; to confer.
- Let us 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.
- (intransitive) To advise or offer expertise.
- (intransitive) To work as a consultant or contractor rather than as a full-time employee of a firm.
- (transitive) 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 ... ; they were content to liberaries. -Whewell.
- (transitive) To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.
- We are ... to the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight. -L'Estrange.
- (transitive), (obsolete): To deliberate upon; to take for.
- Manythings were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved. -Clarendon.
- (transitive), (obsolete): To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.
- Thou hast consulted shame to thy use by cutting off many people. -Hab. ii. 10.
Translations: - Dutch: raadplegen(nl)
- Spanish: consultar(es)
Etymology: consultare, from consulere to consult.
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