Cognoscente vs Consummate - What's the difference?
cognoscente | consummate |
Someone possessing superior or specialized knowledge in a particular field; a connoisseur.
* {{quote-book
, year=1998
, author=Marc J. Seifer
, title=Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius
, chapter=42
, isbn=0806519606
, page=397
, passage=At night, as creative author, the cognoscente sketched out the first draft of his expanded autobiography.}}
Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
* Addison
* 1900 , ",
* 1880 , ,
highly skilled and experienced; fully qualified
* a consummate sergeant
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To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.
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To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch
To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.
* 1890 , Giovanni Boccacio, translated by James MacMullen Rigg, ,
To become perfected, receive the finishing touch
As a noun cognoscente
is someone possessing superior or specialized knowledge in a particular field; a connoisseur.As an adjective consummate is
complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.As a verb consummate is
to bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.cognoscente
English
Noun
(cognoscenti)consummate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A man of perfect and consummate virtue.
- Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like a consummate loon
- The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, ; thus it is in his power to control success.
Synonyms
* (complete) absolute, complete, perfect, sheer, total, utterDerived terms
* consummatelyVerb
(consummat)- After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.