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Which reminds me that I have never remembered from that hour to consult the dictionary upon a selvage.
(Can we date this quote by William Whewell and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
Men forgot, or feared, to consult nature, to seek for new truths, to do what the great discoverers of other times had done; they were content to consult libraries.
(transitive) To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.
(Can we date this quote by L'Estrange and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
We are […] to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for “consult”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)