consent
verbnouncommon in dialogue
- Canada//kənˈsɛnt//
- Australia//kənˈsent//
To express willingness, to give permission.
verb
- 1
To express willingness, to give permission.
After reflecting a little bit, I've decided to consent to her practising the piano in the house.
My poverty, but not my will, consents.
- 2
To cause to sign a consent form.
When the patient was consented to enter the study and registered, a telephone call was made to research assistant
- 3
obsoleteTo grant; to allow; to assent to.
Interpreters […] will not consent it to be a true story.
- 4
To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
And Saul was consenting unto his death.
Flourishing many years before Wyclif, and much consenting with him in judgment.
Etymology
Recorded in Middle English since circa 1225, borrowed from Old French consentir, from Latin cōnsentīre (“to agree; to assent, consent”), itself from com- (“with”) + sentiō (“to feel”) (whence con-).
noun
- 1
Voluntary agreement or permission.
All men know by experience, there be some parts of our bodies which often without any consent of ours doe stirre, stand, and lye down againe.
- 2
obsoleteUnity or agreement of opinion, sentiment, or inclination.
And they all with one consent began to make excuse.
- 3
obsoleteAdvice; counsel.
Forms
- plural
- consents
- past tense
- consented
- past participle
- consented
- present participle
- consenting
- third person singular
- consents