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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₁émeti Proto-Italic *emō Latin emō Latin sūmō Latin cōnsūmō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin cōnsūmptiōder. Old French consumpcionbor. Middle English consumpcioun English consumption English -al English consumptional From consumption + -al.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Relating to consumption.
All these things, after all, mean only an increase in the consumptional knowledge of the individual. A man's consumptional knowledge may be very great while his productional and distributional knowledge is very small.
1915, Missouri. State Dept. of Agriculture, Bulletin, page 47: