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consentient, a.|kənˈsɛnʃ(ɪ)ənt|
[ad. L. consentient-em, pr. pple. of consentīre to consent: see -ent.]
1. Agreeing with each other, or united in opinion; unanimous as to a matter.
1622Sparrow Bk. Com. Prayer (1661) 37 The consentient Testimony..of the Church. 1659Pearson Creed (1839) 30 The consentient acknowledgment of mankind. 1773J. Allen Serm. at St. Mary's Oxf. 18 The earliest councils..were consentient in this article. 1878Lecky Eng. in 18th C. I. iii. 372 The consentient opinion of contemporaries.
b. Acting together to the same end; concurrent.
1737Common Sense (1738) I. 237 It..recovers the consentient Nerves to their due Tension and Elasticity. 1830Herschel Stud. Nat. Phil. 233 The pressure on all the similar parts..will be united into one consentient force. 1881Ramsay in Nature No. 618. 420 With great and consentient labour.
c. Having or exhibiting consentience (sense 2).
1877Lewes Phys. Basis of Mind 360 Psychological observation assures us that the conscious and unconscious states were both consentient, and were both operative in the same degree. Mod. Not conscious but consentient agents. Consentient processes.
2. a. Accordant in opinion to. b. Consenting, giving full consent to.
1661Grand Debate 111 What is here consentient to Antiquity. 1687G. Towerson Baptism 155 A consentient text in the Epistle to the Hebrews. 1876Black Madcap V. xxv. 235 All their friends were consentient. 1883M. E. Braddon Gold. Calf II. 174 Her husband being consentient to this life-long separation. |