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In many traditions and statutes of civil or religious law, the consummation of a marriage, often called simply consummation, is the first (or first officially credited) act of sexual intercourse between two people, either following their marriage to each other or after a prolonged sexual attraction.
1. (Sociology) of or relating to marriage or the relationship between husband and wife: conjugal rights. [C16: from Latin conjugÄlis, from conjunx wife or husband, from conjungere to unite; see conjoin].