Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Tending or intended to consummate or make perfect.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Pertaining to consummation; consummative
  • adjective biology Describing any behaviour that has survival value

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Examples

  • The consummatory phase of experience -- which is intervening as well as final -- always presents something new.

    John Dewey's *Art as Experience* 2010

  • The cycle, from some early consummatory response which reinforces the experience giving rise to it, to a situation in which the individual actively seeks the conditions which are expected again to give rise to that response, may be “explained” in terms of a number of psychological systems.

    Energy and Society~ Chapter 12~ The Distribution of Consumer Goods 2009

  • The repetition of an act serves as an indicator to the observer that the factors affecting choice are operating in such a way that the “consummatory response” of the performer is adequate to induce repetition.

    Energy and Society~ Chapter 12~ The Distribution of Consumer Goods 2009

  • Deliberately ejaculating outside of a woman's vagina cannot constitute a consummatory act of a marriage and therefore cannot be a conjugal act.

    Condomania Mike L 2008

  • A genuine aesthetic object is not only something that gives consummatory experience but also helps to produce further satisfaction.

    Dewey's Aesthetics Leddy, Tom 2006

  • In that latter case, dopaminergic reward might be seen as both indicating and organizing further pursuit of actual or potential need satisfaction while opioid bliss both responds to and favors consummatory activity, as when dopaminergic exploration and instrumental pursuit have prepared the stage for this and no more of these are needed.

    Pleasure Katz, Leonard D. 2006

  • So might the Merciless One smile when she suffers death's consummatory kiss.

    Spirit Gate 2006

  • Defends a μ-opioid-system theory of the trait of affiliation, while suggesting, more tentatively, such a view of similar consummatory-phase pleasure more generally.

    Pleasure Katz, Leonard D. 2006

  • Both the artistic and the aesthetic involve perception in which the instrumental and the consummatory intersect.

    Dewey's Aesthetics Leddy, Tom 2006

  • The goal of inquiry is not simply a change in the beliefs of the inquirers but the resolution of the problematic situation, in what he calls a ˜consummatory™ course of action or state of affairs.

    Dewey's Political Philosophy Festenstein, Matthew 2005

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