Word Meanings - SELF-CONSUMING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Consuming one's self or itself.

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• CONSUMMATELY
  In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
• CONSUMPTION
  A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption. Consumption of the
• CONSUMINGLY
  In a consuming manner.
• CONSUMPTIVELY
  In a way tending to or indication consumption. Beddoes.
• CONSUMABLE
  Capable of being consumed; that may be destroyed, dissipated, wasted, or spent. "Consumable commodities." Locke.
• CONSUMPTIVE
  Affected with, or inclined to, consumption. The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed. Dryden. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting. It is not consumptive
• CONSUMPTIVENESS
  A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption.
• CONSUMMATION
  The act of consummating, or the state of being consummated; completed; completion; perfection; termination; end (as of the world or of life). "Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. Shak. From its original to its consummation. Addison. Quiet
• CONSUME
  To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour. If he were putting to my house the brand That shall consume it. Shak. Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where
• CONSUMER'S SURPLUS
  The excess that a purchaser would be willing to pay for a commodity over that he does pay, rather than go without the commodity; -- called also consumer's rent. The price which a person pays for a thing can never exceed, and seldom comes up to,
• CONSUMER
  One who, or that which, consumes; as, the consumer of food.
• CONSUMER'S GOODS
  Economic goods that directly satisfy human wants or desires, such as food, clothes, pictures, etc.; -- called also consumption goods, or goods of the first order, and opposed to producer's goods.
• CONSUMEDLY
  Excessively. He's so consumedly pround of it. Thackeray.
• CONSUMMATE
  Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect. "A man of perfect and consummate virtue." Addison. The little band held the post with consummate tenacity. Motley
• ITSELF
  The neuter reciprocal pronoun of It; as, the thing is good in itself; it stands by itself. Borrowing of foreigners, in itself, makes not the kingdom rich or poor. Locke.
• CONSUMMATIVE
  Serving to consummate; completing. "The final, the consummative procedure of philosophy." Sir W. Hamilton.
• INCONSUMPTIBLE
  Inconsumable. Sir K. Digby.
• INCONSUMMATE
  Not consummated; not finished; incomplete. Sir M. Hale. -- In`con*sum"mate*ness, n.
• UNDERCONSUMPTION
  Consumption of less than is produced; consumption of less than the usual amount. F. A. Walk
• UNCONSUMMATE
  Not consummated; not accomplished. Dryden.
• SELF-CONSUMING
  Consuming one's self or itself.
• INCONSUMABLE
  Not consumable; incapable of being consumed, wasted, or spent. Paley. -- In`con*sum"a*bly, adv.