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English Dictionary: consult by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
consult
v
  1. get or ask advice from; "Consult your local broker"; "They had to consult before arriving at a decision"
    Synonym(s): consult, confer with
  2. seek information from; "You should consult the dictionary"; "refer to your notes"
    Synonym(s): consult, refer, look up
  3. have a conference in order to talk something over; "We conferred about a plan of action"
    Synonym(s): confer, confabulate, confab, consult
  4. advise professionally; "The professor consults for industry"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Consult \Con*sult"\ (k[ocr]n*s[ucr]lt"), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
      {Consulted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Consulting}.] [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.
  
               Let us consult upon to-morrow's business. --Shak.
  
               All the laws of England have been made by the kings
               England, consulting with the nobility and commons.
                                                                              --Hobbes.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Consult \Con*sult"\, v. t.
      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 fergot, or feared, to consult . . .; they were
                     content to consult liberaries.            --Whewell.
  
      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.
                                                                              --L'Estrange.
  
      3. To deliberate upon; to take for. [Obs.]
  
                     Manythings were there consulted for the future, yet
                     nothing was positively resolved.         --Clarendon.
  
      4. To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to
            contrive. [Obs.]
  
                     Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting
                     off many people.                                 --Hab. ii. 10.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Consult \Con*sult"\ (? [or] ?), n.
      1. The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also,
            the result of consulation; determination; decision. [Obs.]
  
                     The council broke; And all grave consults dissolved
                     in smoke.                                          --Dryden.
  
      2. A council; a meeting for consultation. [Obs.] [bd]A
            consult of coquettes.[b8] --Swift.
  
      3. Agreement; concert [Obs.] --Dryden.
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