consentient
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- adjective Consonant; congruent; agreeing: as, consentient testimony.
- adjective Endowed with consentience; of the nature of consentience: as,consentient animals; consentient activities.
- noun One of two or more agreeing and mutually consenting minds.
Examples
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We are going to submit to the consideration of the Cuban people and consentient declaration containing the points of view of the Cuban people.
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If he were to find their character to be invariable, and peculiar to each of the boards put before him, he would learn that before he trusts his subject to the canvass, he should question himself as to the sentiment he intends it to express, and what combination of colours would be consentient or dissentient to it.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.
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Sulpicius declared openly that he would punish all according to the usage of military discipline, being deterred by the consentient shout of the soldiers who threw the blame on one sentinel, he spared the rest.
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In Greece, where limb and thought were consentient in one grace of motion, the body was too perfect an expression of the mind to admit any consciousness of discord; the greater simplicity of a life passed largely in the open air, left no place for awkwardness in the franker converse of man with man.
Note
The word 'consentient' comes from a Latin word meaning 'consent'.
