• CONSUMMATE

1. ad exitum adducere: ad finem perducere: conficere (finish): consummare (classical, after the Augustan Age; Vid: Ruhnken, Vel., 2, 89): absolvere: perficere [SYN. in PERFECT, v.] : ad effectum adducere (opposed to spe concipere, Cic.): ad effectum alicujus rei pervenire (e.g., consiliorum, Cic.).

2. adj. summus: perfectus: absolutus. (the words are found in this connection and order), perfectus atque absolutus: absolutus et perfectus: expletus et perfectus: perfectus cumulatusque: perfectus completusque (having the highest degree of perfection): also absolutus omnibus numeris: perfectus expletusque omnibus suis numeris et partibus (perfect in every part). A consummate philosopher, philosophus absolutus: a consummate orator, orator perfectus: homo perfectus in dicendo: a man of consummate learning, homo or vir doctissimus: homo nobilis et clarus ex doctrina: a physician of consummate skill, medicus arte insignis. For a consummate rogue, rascal, fool, etc., Vid: ARRANT.