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verb (used with object), consummated, consummating. 1. to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill. 2. to complete (an arrangement, agreement, or the like) by a pledge or the signing of a contract: The company consummated its deal to buy a smaller firm. 3. to complete (the union of a marriage) by the first marital sexual intercourse.
A natural response is to ask about the legitimacy of marriages for infertile couples, given the assumption that procreation both defines and fulfills marriage, and the Declaration has an answer. The marital commitment between a man and a woman, they claim, is consummated by a single purpose, which is expressed by fulfilling together the behavioral conditions of procreation (emphasis mine).