p. pr. to take counsel; to deliberate together; to
confer.
Let us consult upon to-morrows
business.
Shak.
All the laws of England have been made by the
kings England, consulting with the nobility and
commons.
Hobbes.
consult , 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
ones wishes.
We are . . . to consult the necessities of
life, rather than matters of ornament and delight.
LEstrange.
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.
consult (konsult orkonsult), 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.
