Consult

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: con=sult

CIDE DICTIONARY

Consult, v. i. [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.  [1913 Webster]
"Let us consult upon to-morrow's business."  [1913 Webster]
"All the laws of England have been made by the kings England, consulting with the nobility and commons."  [1913 Webster]

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.  [1913 Webster]

  "Men forgot, or feared, to consult nature . . . ; they were content to consult libraries."  [1913 Webster]
•  To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.  [1913 Webster]

  "We are . . . to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight."  [1913 Webster]
•  To deliberate upon; to take for.  [1913 Webster]

  "Manythings were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved."  [1913 Webster]
•  To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.  [1913 Webster]

  "Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people."  [1913 Webster]

Consult, n. 

•  The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consulation; determination; decision.  [1913 Webster]

  "The council broke;
  And all grave consults dissolved in smoke."  [1913 Webster]
•  A council; a meeting for consultation.  Swift.  [1913 Webster]
•  Agreement; concert  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Consult, v.
1 tr. seek information or advice from (a person, book, watch, etc.).
2 intr. (often foll. by with) refer to a person for advice, an opinion, etc.
3 tr. seek permission or approval from (a person) for a proposed action.
4 tr. take into account; consider (feelings, interests, etc.).

Derivative

consultative adj.

Etymology

F consulter f. L consultare frequent. of consulere consult- take counsel

DEVIL DICTIONARY

Consult

v.i. To seek another's disapproval of a course already decided on.

THESAURUS

Consult

GO, advise, advise with, bargain, blow, call in, cast away, cogitate, collogue, compare notes, confab, confabulate, confer, confer with, consider, consult with, counsel, deliberate, devour, discuss, discuss with, dissipate, drivel, eat, examine, exchange observations, exchange views, exhaust, expend, feed on, finish, fritter, have conversations, hold conference, huddle, ingest, inquire of, interrogate, look up, meal, negotiate, palaver, parley, partake of, powwow, put heads together, question, reason with, refer to, run through, sit down together, sit down with, spend, squander, take, take counsel, take counsel with, take up with, talk over, throw away, treat, trifle away, use up, wash up

ROGET THESAURUS

Consult

Advice

VB advise, counsel, give advice, give counsel, give a piece of advice, suggest, prompt, submonish, recommend, prescribe, advocate, exhort, enjoin, enforce, charge, instruct, call, call upon, dictate, expostulate, admonish, advise with, lay heads together, consult together, compare notes, hold a council, deliberate, be closeted with, confer, consult, refer to, call in, take advice, follow advice, be advised by, have at one's elbow, take one's cue from.