Consult
Consult (kon*sult") , intransitive verb
[Latin consultare, from consulere to consult: compare f. consulter. Compare 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.
All the laws of England have been made by the kings England, consulting with the nobility and commons.
Consult , transitive verb
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.
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.
3.
To deliberate upon; to take for. [Obsolete]
Manythings were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved.
4.
To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive. [Obsolete]
Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people.
Consult (kon*sult" or kon"sult) , noun
1.
The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consulation; determination; decision. [Obsolete]
The council broke;
And all grave consults dissolved in smoke.
2.
A council; a meeting for consultation. [Obsolete]
A consult of coquettes.
3.
Agreement; concert [Obsolete] — Dryden