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assentient, ppl. a. and n.|əˈsɛnʃənt|
[ad. L. assentient-em, pr. pple. of assentīri to assent. Takes the place of the earlier assentant.]
A. adj. Assenting, approving, accordant.
1851Nichol Archit. Heavens 271 [They] could obtain assentient hearers for the doctrine. 1866J. Rose Ovid's Met. 49 To this the powers marine assentient are.
B. n. One who assents or agrees; an assenter.
1859Smiles G. Stephenson 241 Lords Derby and Sefton..were found among the assentients to the London and Birmingham line. 1860Lit. Ch.-man VI. 45 We find..fifty assentients in the Lower House. |