consentient
Americanadjective
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agreeing; accordant.
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acting in harmonious agreement.
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unanimous, as an opinion.
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characterized by or having consentience.
adjective
Other Word Forms
- consentience noun
- consentiently adverb
- unconsentient adjective
Etymology
Origin of consentient
1615–25; < Latin consentient- (stem of consentiēns, present participle of consentīre to consent; -ent )
Example Sentences
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Whatsoever in nature is moved naturally, the same is set in motion both by its own forces and by the consentient compact of other bodies.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William
On another occasion, when Bradshaw attributed the charge against the king to the consentient voice of the people of England, the same female voice exclaimed, "No, not one-tenth of the people."
From The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 by Belloc, Hilaire
Sound in doctrine according to the consentient testimony of Scripture and the Church.
From The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous
The proper proof of the statement is the consentient voice of all the copies,—except about nineteen of loose character:—we know their vagaries but too well, and decline to let them impose upon us.
From The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Miller, Edward
And now, once more, my lord Bishop,—Pray which of us is it,—you or I,—who seeks for the truth of Scripture “in the consentient testimony of the most ancient authorities”?
From The Revision Revised by Burgon, John William
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