a. [ad. L. type *consummātīv-us (prob. used in med. or mod.L.), f. consummāt- ppl. stem of consummāre to CONSUMMATE + -IVE.] Having the faculty of consummating, tending to consummate; completory, final.
1683. E. Hooker, Pref. Ep. Pordage’s Mystic Div., 71. Peace and Truth (a Conjunction which I wold ever call Copulativ, and make, if I could, perpetuously Consummativ).
1702. S. Parker, trans. Tully’s de Finibus, 225. The Amplitudines Bonorum, or Consummative Goods.
1836–7. Sir W. Hamilton, Metaph., vi. (1859), I. 98. This mental reconstruction is, therefore, the final, the consummative procedure of philosophy. Ibid. (1852), Discuss. (1853), 21, note. The consummative union of the two had not been attempted.
Hence Consummatively adv., Consummativeness sb.
1624. Donne, Serm., xvii. 163. If we speak effectually and consummatively.
1653. Gauden, Hierasp., 279. There is nothing usefull or commendable in any other way … which is not inclusively, eminently, and consummatively in a well-ordered Episcopacy.
1701. Beverley, Apoc. Quest., 9. Of the Amplitude, and Consummativeness of it.
