0 past simple and past participle of consummate
1 to make a marriage or romantic relationship complete by having sex:
The marriage was never consummated.
2 to make something complete or perfect
For most disciplines the union of content and methodology is consummated rather smoothly.
In this new world, without the social strife of the old, there seems to be a better chance that the marriage might be consummated.
Further, once the 'marriage' was consummated, it was acceptable to the community and even, eventually, to the bride.
The 'marriage' would be consummated and the couple regarded as husband and wife.
They had been married for 4 years but, according to her, he was impotent and the marriage had not been consummated.
Where coherent agreements are consummated, that will be because those obstacles are overcome.
Only recently, in a case involving ex post examination of a consummated hospital merger has a set of merging hospitals failed to prevail in court.
I divorce would be issued unless he consummated the marriage within a set period of time.
