Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-SUM-MA'TION, n. [L. consummatio.]

1. Completion; end; perfection of a work, process or scheme. – Addison.
2. The end or completion of the present system of things; the end of the world. – Hooker.
3. Death; the end of life. – Shak. Consummation of marriage, the most intimate union of the sexes, which completes the connubial relation.