Word Meanings - CONSUMMATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; completed; completion; perfection; termination; end (as of the world or of life). "Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. Shak. From its original to its consummation. Addison. Quiet

Additional info about word: CONSUMMATION

The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; completed; completion; perfection; termination; end (as of the world or of life). "Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. Shak. From its original to its consummation. Addison. Quiet consummation have, And renownShak. Consummation of marrige, completion of the connubial relation by actual cohabition.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONSUMMATION)

• Climax
• Summit
• height
• consummation
• acme
• point
• head
• mered
• ian
• culmination
• zenith
• Culmination
• Consummation
• meridian
• apex
• success
• completion
• Maximum
• Ultimatum
• climax
• utmost
• Perfection
• Perfectness
• wholeness
• excellency
• Success
• Achievement
• luck
• prosperity
• victory
• good-fortune

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• MERCURIALISM
  The morbid condition produced by the excessive use of mercury, or by exposure to its fumes, as in mining or smelting.
• MERCAPTAL
  Any one of a series of compounds of mercaptans with aldehydes.
• MERLON
  One of the solid parts of a battlemented parapet; a battlement. See Illust. of Battlement.
• MEROPODITE
  The fourth joint of a typical appendage of Crustacea.
• MERCENARIA
  The quahog.
• VICTORY
  The defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist in any contest; a gaining of the superiority in any struggle or competition; conquest; triumph; -- the opposite of Ant: defeat. Death is swallowed up in victory. 1 Cor. xv. 54. God on our side,
• SUCCESS
  1. Act of succeeding; succession. Then all the sons of these five brethren reigned By due success. Spenser. 2. That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.
• MEROVINGIAN
  Of or pertaining to the first Frankish dynasty in Gaul or France. -- n.
• MERCHANDISABLE
  Such as can be used or transferred as merchandise.
• MERELY
  1. Purely; unmixedly; absolutely. Ulysses was to force forth his access, Though merely naked. Chapman. 2. Not otherwise than; simply; barely; only. Prize not your life for other ends Than merely to obige your friends. Swift. Syn. -- Solely; simply;
• MEROCELE
  Hernia in the thigh; femoral hernia .
• MERCURIAL
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• MERCILESS
  Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant; merciless waves. The foe is merciless, and will not pity. Shak. Syn. -- Cruel; unmerciful; remorseless; ruthless; pitiless;
• MERMAID
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  Market; trade. Bp. Sprat.
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• MERICARP
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• MERRY-ANDREW
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• MERGER
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• GRAMERCY
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• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
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  In a commercial manner.
• ANTIMERE
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• PENTAMERAN
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• INNUMEROUS
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