consult

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to advise professionally

   The professor consults for industry

2. 2
   verb

   to seek information from

   You should consult the dictionary

3. 3
   noun

   The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation.

   For firſt upon conſult of reaſon, there will bee found no eaſie aſſurance for to faſten a materiall or temperamentall propriety upon any nation; […]

4. 4
   noun

   The result of consultation; determination; decision.

   [T]he council broke; / And all their grave conſults diſſolv'd in ſmoke.

5. 5
   noun

   A council; a meeting for consultation.

   a consult of coquettes

6. 6
   verb

   To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer; to advise.

   Let us consult upon to-morrow's business.

7. 7
   verb

   To advise or offer expertise.

   Well, I have a trade of my own. I suppose I am the only one in the world. I’m a consulting detective, if you can understand what that is.

8. 8
   verb

   To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of (a person)

   If you have no library commission, consult a lawyer and get from him a careful statement of what can be done under present statutory regulations.

Etymology

From Middle French consulter, from Latin cōnsultō (“to deliberate, consult”), frequentative of cōnsulō (“to consult, deliberate, consider, reflect upon, ask advice”), from com- (“together”) + -sulō, from Proto-Indo-European *selh₁- (“to take, grab”).