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What's The Definition Of Consult?

\Con*sult"\ (k[o^]n*s[u^]lt"), 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. 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.
\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 house by cutting off many people. --Hab. ii. 10.
\Con*sult"\ (? or ?), 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.