[f. CONSUMMATE v. + -ING1.] The action of completing or perfecting; consummation.
1555. J. Harpesfeld, in Bonner, Homilies, 43. To the perfytynge, or consummating of the holy ons.
a. 1618. Raleigh, Mahomet (1637), 131. The time … for the consummating of the intended marriage.
1660. Trial Regic., 46. That which was the Consummating of all, that Bloody Warrant.
