consensual
[kuh n-sen-shoo-uh l]
- formed or existing merely by consent: a consensual transaction.
- Physiology. (of an action) involuntarily correlative with a voluntary action, as the contraction of the iris when the eye is opened.
Show More
Origin of consensual
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018
Examples from the Web for consensual
Contemporary Examples
He had invited a 19-year-old drifter named Arnold Murray to his house and they had had consensual sex.
Consensual sex between males in private should be decriminalized.
After she ended a 6-month-long consensual affair with Cosby, she claims he drugged her backstage before a performance in Denver.
Bill Cosby’s Long List of Accusers (So Far): 18 Alleged Sexual Assault Victims Between 1965-2004Marlow Stern
November 24, 2014
He admitted having sex with her, but insisted it was consensual.
Haidak was told to have no contact with Gibney, but they texted and also engaged in consensual sex, according to the suit.
Historical Examples
The Consensual Contracts, it will be observed, were extremely limited in number.
Ancient LawSir Henry James Sumner Maine
Doubtless we may pass gradually from the purely reflex, through the consensual, to the voluntary.
Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. IHerbert Spencer
We now reach the fourth class, or Consensual Contracts, the most interesting and important of all.
Ancient LawSir Henry James Sumner Maine
For, in truth, the peculiarity of these Consensual Contracts is that no formalities, are required to create them out of the Pact.
Ancient LawSir Henry James Sumner Maine
A consensual ecclesiastical jurisdiction is thus created, which has to this extent temporal sanction.
consensual
- law (of a contract, agreement, etc) existing by consent
- law (of a sexual activity) performed with the consent of all parties involved
- (of certain reflex actions of a part of the body) responding to stimulation of another part
Show More
Word Origin
from consensus + -al 1
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Word Origin and History for consensual
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
consensual
(kən-sĕn′shōō-əl)- Of or relating to a reflexive response of one body structure following stimulation of another, such as the concurrent constriction of one pupil in response to light shined in the other.
- Of or relating to involuntary movement of a body part accompanying voluntary movement of another.
Show More
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.