Definition of Consult

Consult

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

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.

To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.

To deliberate upon; to take for.

To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.

The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consulation; determination; decision.

A council; a meeting for consultation.

Agreement; concert

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Consult Quotations

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale Carnegie

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
Robert Brault

It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.
Sam Levenson

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
Ambrose Bierce

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
Blaise Pascal

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Ludwig van Beethoven

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.
Noel Coward

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.
Marilyn vos Savant

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
Sallust

Consult duty not events.
Walter Savage Landor

Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.
Mason Cooley

I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be.
Paul Ryan

I dropped out of college my junior year to do Saturday Night Live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus

It is also right that we continue to consult with front line workers and the public to ensure that targets are reasonable and achievable, that measurement regimes are proportionate and that the targets take full account of the other reforms that are under way.
John Hutton

Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare.
Jonathan Mayhew

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.
Ronald Fisher

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
Barbara Deming

Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.
Edward Weston

At times we expected the allies unquestioningly to follow our leads; sometimes we failed to consult them in advance before reversing policies; at other times we ignored their requests.
Richard Kerry

And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.
Aulus Persius Flaccus

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Consult Translations

consult in Afrikaans is raadpleeg
consult in Dutch is raadplegen, consulteren
consult in French is consultez, consulter, consultent, consultons
consult in German is zuziehen, Befragen, konsultieren
consult in Italian is interrogare
consult in Latin is consulto
consult in Spanish is consultar

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