consummate
consummate (k[schwa]n-s[schwa]m-it orkahn-s[schwa]-mit), adj. Completed; fully accomplished. • Consummate was often used at common law to describe the status of a contract or an estate, such as the trans-formation of a husband’s interest in his wife’s inheritance from that of a tenant by the curtesy initiate to a tenant by curtesy consummate upon the wife’s […]