(a.) Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.
(v. t. ) To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.
Example Sentences:
(1) Defence lawyers suggested this week that Anwar's accuser was a "compulsive and consummate liar" who may have been put up to it.
(2) As well as having a remarkably short breeding season, which accounts in large part for their very low population numbers – it is believed there are only about 1,500 left in the wild in addition to the 350 in captivity – there is also a risk that consummation will fail to produce young.
(3) Because of course nothing is more destructive of the sanctity of his own vocation than the suggestion that we simply don't need this kind of conservation – if that's what it really is – at all; that on the contrary, the entire "relaunch" is simply the bastard offspring of an orgiastic union between Mammon and science, consummated on the Stonehenge altar stone and observed by the fee-paying public.
(4) Steven Whittaker had advanced from right back with real purpose but even he cannot have expected to sashay beyond Advocaat’s left back and left-sided central defender with such consummate ease before shooting unerringly into the bottom corner.
(5) Dexter was a consummate theatrical craftsman and Lindsay was, in one form, a sort of poetic director.
(6) By the end of it, we will have fallen in love and consummated our relationship in a blur of Frank Lloyd Wright and deep-dish pizza.
(7) The rela tionship with the US and western Europe was consummated with the signing of a contract in 1997 with the AIOC, the international oil consortium, which provided western oil companies with a huge stake in the Caspian.
(8) Described by those who know him as proud of his northern roots, without being chippy, and he is in many ways the consummate insider, with a network of high-level contacts in the City, including chief executives and the powerful financial PRs who control access to them.
(9) He works the levers of public approval with consummate skill, yet can never quite conceal his slight boredom at how easy it is.
(10) When it comes to her political career, Clinton is a consummate politician – she is, in the parlance of the New York Times , “no angel”.
(11) Roy is a consummate professional and he knows how we want to work,” he said then.
(12) Colin Currie, a fellow student, who remains a close friend, remembers Brown as a consummate political operator even then.
(13) Whatever else art historian John Ruskin might have accomplished in his life, he will forever be remembered as the man who was so terrified to discover his wife's pubic hair that he was unable to consummate their marriage on their wedding night.
(14) A magnificent stutter and double-take just after the two-minute mark, the man was a consummate pro.
(15) Corporal James Walters was 36 and described as a consummate professional.
(16) And well they might: he is the consummate televisual politician.
(17) Yet Canary Wharf is this big, swell, ugly, garish, comforting exception, a place so consummately about banking that the escalator from the tube runs straight into a bank, the bank runs straight into the Waitrose and I have never found out how you get to the street (is there a street?).
(18) Freud developed a continuum for anxiety as initially functioning as a conversion reaction enabling sexual feelings that cannot reach mentational levels or be consummated in erotic activity to be discharged.
(19) Shell warns of 50% cut in profits amid plunging oil price Read more Ben van Beurden, the Shell chief executive, expressed relief he had won the day, although for the merger to be consummated, he must also secure the support of BG investors at a separate meeting in London on Thursday.
(20) Is it that the doctors, nurses and receptionists who treat me are consummate actors, hiding unbearable levels of stress, and managing to kid me that my symptoms are all that matter to them?
Copulate
Definition:
(a.) Joined; associated; coupled.
(a.) Joining subject and predicate; copulative.
(v. i.) To unite in sexual intercourse; to come together in the act of generation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using allozymes as the genetic probe, data are presented which show that wild Drosophila buzzatii females and males engaged in copulation mate at random.
(2) The inhibition is desappears if placed under copulation conditions during a full cycle.
(3) Circular cuts which surgically isolated the medial basal hypothalamus (MBH) from the remainder of the brain did not prevent copulation 4 to 24 h later, but did block reflex ovulation.
(4) Eight rats of the PCPA group and only two of the vehicle, started to copulate.
(5) Incubation of normal pig lymphocytes in serum samples collected from 10 sows immediately before, and at daily intervals after mating with a vasectomized boar significantly elevated the rosette inhibition titre (RIT) of a standard antilymphocyte serum in 6 animals on the first but not on the 2nd and 3rd day after copulation.
(6) Duration of copulation in mixed combinations of D. athabasca is determined by the male.
(7) In Rhodotorula, peroxisomes are characterized by the same "bean" configuration and paired arrangement imitating "copulation" as mitocondria.
(8) On average, copulation lasted 27.2 s and was completed in flight.
(9) The surface membrane enzyme activity disappears from the zygote shortly after copulation and at the same time lysosome-like bodies start to appear in the cytoplasm.
(10) There was no seasonal fluctuation in copulative activity.
(11) Since courtship song increases a females' receptivity to copulation, the frequency of mating within a short observation period was used as a measure of the ability of mutant females to distinguish between singing males and males that were unable to sing.
(12) Copulations with other adults males also occurred during all cycle phases, but were most frequent peri-ovulatory.
(13) Copulation occurred more often on the occasion of the first attempt by the male.
(14) In the second experiment, intact females copulated twice with a male: once when they were able to hear and once when they were temporarily deafened with a medical ear mold.
(15) The gene products are secreted into the male duct and transferred to the female copulant during copulation.
(16) Pregnant C3H mice were exposed to teratogenic doses of cyclophosphamide (CPA), on the 11th day after copulation.
(17) Thiazide-type diuretics also produce erectile dysfunction in rats and interfere with normal copulation.
(18) Morphine administered rats showed a loss of weight, hypertrophy of the adrenals, decreased weight of accessory sex organs, low sperm count, and decreased copulation rate.
(19) La Crosse virus was detected in the bursa of females after induced copulation, and disseminated infection was shown to occur occasionally.
(20) Mangabeys spend 47% of activity observations feeding, 27% moving, and the remainder of the activity observations is accounted for by grooming, playing, vocalizing, copulating, etc.