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   Consult , 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.
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   Let us consult upon to-morrow's business.
   Shak.
   
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   All the laws of England have been made by the kings England, consulting with the nobility and commons.
   Hobbes.
   
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   Consult, v. t.
   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.
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   Men forgot, or feared, to consult nature . . . ; they were content to consult libraries.
   Whewell.
   
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   To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.
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   We are . . .  to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight.
   L'Estrange.
   
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   To deliberate upon; to take for. [Obs.]
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   Manythings were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved.
   Clarendon.
   
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   To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive. [Obs.]
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   Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people.
   Hab. ii. 10.
   
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   Consult , n.
   The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consulation; determination; decision. [Obs.]
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   The council broke;
   And all grave consults dissolved in smoke.
   Dryden.
   
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   A council; a meeting for consultation. [Obs.] “A consult of coquettes.”  
   Swift.
   
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   Agreement; concert [Obs.]
   Dryden.
   
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