[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That consummates; completing, perfecting.
1616. Chapman, Musæus, 395. When the consummating hours had crown’d The down-right nuptials.
1701. Beverley, Apoc. Quest., 12. The Consummating Judgments of its Utter, and Final Destruction.
1823. Southey, Hist. Penins. War, I. 182. He committed his last and consummating folly, by appealing to the very tyrant, [etc.].
1876. Mozley, Univ. Serm., ii. 41. The consummating act of national apostasy.
