consumpt

English

Noun

consumpt (plural consumpts)

1. (chiefly Scotland) The amount consumed; consumption.
   • 1842, Samuel Laing, Notes of a traveller, on the social and political state of France, Prussia, Switzerland, Italy, and Other Parts of Europe:

     If the home market, which depends upon the consumpt of the many, be injured by a deficiency of the means among the many to buy and consume, and a reduction of the wages of labour by a reduction of the cost of subsistence is clearly a reduction of the means to expend in the home market, it is killing the goose that laid the golden eggs to reduce the wages of labour for the sake of the foreign market for our manufactures. Political economists tell us that the export of our industrial products, including even the consumpt of our colonies, is by no means of that magnitude that any real interests of our labouring class should be sacrificed for the foreign market; and that is not the basis of our manufacturing prosperity.

   • 1999, Brian D. Osborne, Ronald Armstrong, Mungo's City: A Glasgow Anthology, page 174:

     The brains and the hammers are still on the Clyde, but as long as British shipowners reckon small coal consumpts far above records he must bide his time.

   • 2013, D. Alan Stevenson, The World's Lighthouses: From Ancient Times to 1820, →ISBN, page 123:

     At Gatteville the consumpt of coal during the first fortnight reached nearly 9 tons against an estimate of tons.

2. (obsolete) Consumer; market.
   • 1779, Thomas Tod, Observations on American Independency - Volume 9, page 9:

     If a weaver makes a thousand yards of cloth, and finds a ready and profitable sale for it, at ahigh price, he will of course continue, and others of the same profession, seing him grow rich, will take his workmen at higher wages, and increase the prices of materials, so long as they can get a consumpt for their cloth with profit ; and so of every other manufacture.

   • 1814, Robert Henderson, A Treatise on the Breeding of Swine, and Curing of Bacon:

     Those farmers that live within one hundred miles of London have the advantage of us for marketing their stock, having so regular a consumpt for every article.

   • 2010, Charles Mahoney, A Companion to Romantic Poetry, →ISBN:

     He is willing to leave his plans for “large Poetic works” to that “great maker and marrer of projects - TIME” in order to become “a consumpt for a great deal of idle metre" (Burns 1985: 1. 319).

Verb

consumpt (third-person singular simple present consumpts, present participle consumpting, simple past and past participle consumpted)

1. To consume.
   • 1997, S. Sánchez-Beitia, C. A. Brebbia, Structural studies, repairs, and maintenance of historical buildings:

     The latter two are one-component materials, which cure by consumpting the humidity of the stone.

   • 2009, Hugo Van Bever, Allergic Diseases in Children, →ISBN:

     In Asia, it is mainly the tropical fish species that are consumpted, such as threadfin (Polynemus indicus), Indian anchovy (Stolephorus indicus), pomfret (Pampus chinensis), and tengirri (Scomberomorus guttatus).

   • 2013, Jan Haase, Models, Methods, and Tools for Complex Chip Design, →ISBN, page 111:

     A current source which controls and consumpts the load current depending on the model.

Anagrams

• Cumpston, Cumptons