CONSULT

consult

Noun

  1. : The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consultation; determination; decision.
    The council broke; And all grave consults dissolved in smoke. -.
  2. : A council; a meeting for consultation.
    A consult of coquettes. -.
  3. : Agreement; concert.
  4. : A visit, e.g. to a doctor; a consultation.

Verb

  1. To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.
    Let us consult upon to-morrow's business. -
    All the laws of England have been made by the kings of England, consulting with the nobility and commons. - .
  2. To advise or offer expertise.
  3. To work as a consultant or contractor rather than as a full-time employee of a firm.
  4. 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 ... ; they were content to consult libraries. - .
  5. 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.
  6. : To deliberate upon; to take for.
    Many things were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved. -.
  7. : To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.
    Thou hast consulted shame to thy use by cutting off many people. - Bible, Heb. ii. 10.


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