Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who assents or consents; especially, one who assents obsequiously; a flatterer. Sir T. Elyot.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare An obsequious; a flatterer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
obsequious flatterer .
Etymologies
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Latin, from assentari to assent constantly.
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Examples
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The Latin word for a flatterer (_assentator_) implies no more than a person that barely consents; and indeed such a one, if a man were able to purchase or maintain him, can not be bought too dear.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II Various 1887
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n. - removal, especially crime of removing property. assentaneous adj. - acquiescent. adj. willing to assent. assentator, n. flatterer; one assenting insincerely or conniving. assentatory, v. - to state positively, emphatically
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