CONSULT (2)

consult (2)|consultation. Consult, or Consultation, n. the act of consulting

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Con‐sult″, v. t. 1. 1. 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.
Men forgot, or feared, to consult nature . . . ; they were content to consult libraries. Whewell. 2. 2. To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.
We are . . . to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight. L'Estrange. 3. 3. To deliberate upon; to take for.
Manythings were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved. Clarendon. 4. 4. To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.
Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people. Hab. ii. 10.