Con*sult" (k&obreve;n*sŭlt" or k&obreve;n"sŭlt), 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.
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 forgot, or feared, to consult nature . . . ; they were content to consult libraries.
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" (k&obreve;n*sŭlt"), 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.
Hear it pronounced