The indexes to the Tatler and the Spectator are full of piquancy, and possess that admirable quality of making the consulter wish to read the book itself.
During his work the indexer must constantly ask himself what it is for which the consulter is likely to seek.
The consulter is annoyed to find no additional information in the book to what is already given in the index.
When the indexer is absorbed in the work upon which he is working, he takes for granted much with which the consulter coming fresh to the subject is not familiar.
Common feeling with the consulter and insight into his mind, so that the indexer may put the references he has drawn from the book under headings where they are most likely to be sought.
The confusion by which two persons are made into one has sometimes an evil consequence worse than putting the consulter of an index on the wrong scent, for the character of an innocent person may be taken away by this means.
This enables the consulter of the catalogue to find a biography without having to stop and consider whether the person was a cardinal or a statesman.
The consulter of a catalogue might at least take the trouble to understand the plan upon which it is compiled before using it.
In the matter of penalties, indeed, consulterand consulted fared nearly alike, and both got off easily.
The church set itself to suppress both the consulter and the consulted.
In the case of a catalogue it is quite different, for the consulter has not the book before him, and wishes to find it from the leading idea of the title, which is probably all he remembers.
When Barbier compiled his valuable work, he adopted the simple plan of arranging each title under the first word not an article, which works admirably, because the consulter has the book whose author he seeks in his hand.
It will therefore be a question for the consulter alone whether it is better worth his while to consult several supplements than to go straight to the library.
It is intended for the convenience of the consulter; and if the titles are placed under headings for which the consulter is not likely to look, the system signally fails in this respect.
The cataloguer, however, has not these facilities of arrangement at his disposal, and in consequence it becomes difficult for the consulter to distinguish the important parts of the title from the unimportant.
Two books with totally different titles are often identical in subject, and the indexer saves the time of the consulter by realizing this fact and acting upon it.
Very often the particulars included in the bibliography will be sufficient in themselves to save the consulter from the necessity of searching for the book.
Accordingly, they introduced it in several places; in the eleventh verse of the eighteenth chapter of Deuteronomy, for instance, "a consulter with familiar spirits.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "consulter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
