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consensual, a.|kənˈsɛnsjuːəl, -ʃuːəl|
[f. L. consensu-s (see next) + -al1. In mod. F. consensuel.]
1. Relating to or involving consent. consensual contract (in Rom. Law): a contract which requires only consent of the parties to render it obligatory: so consensual obligation.
1754Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 308 Contracts consensual, i.e. which might, by the Roman law, be perfected by sole consent. 1818Colebrooke Oblig. & Contracts I. 14. 1880 Muirhead tr. Gaius iii. §89 note, The verbal and literal contracts are often spoken of by the civilians as formal contracts, in contradistinction to the real and consensual ones, which they call material. Ibid. 478 Consensual obligations were so called because a common understanding was sufficient to create them without any formality. 1881Hatch Bampt. Lect. vi. 145 The consensual jurisdiction to which the members of Christian societies submitted themselves.
2. Phys. Happening as if by consent, caused by sympathetic action: said of movements which take place through the action of the nervous system independently of the will, and spec. of movements caused by reflex action of the sensory nerve-centres on being stimulated through the organs of sense.
1800Med. Jrnl. IV. 275 An increased action or local irritation, either idiopathic or consensual. 1839Baly tr. Müller's Physiol. II. 930 [It] has a tendency to consensual action with its fellow nerve of the opposite side. 1864H. Spencer Illustr. Univ. Progr. 319 Doubtless we may pass gradually from the purely reflex, through the consensual, to the voluntary. 1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. ii. (1879) 57 The Sensori-motor or consensual actions in Man.
Hence conˈsensually adv., in a consensual manner, by consent.
1885Eng. Mech. 19 June 345 That the Budget..may be criticised, attacked, and even consensually or compulsorily amended. 1886Sat. Rev. 9 Jan. 36 There are no means..whereby the powers of an Irish Parliament could be consensually so limited. |