[ME. consentour, a. AF. consentour = OF. consenteo(u)r:—late L. type *consentītōr-em, f. consentīre to CONSENT: see -ER.] One who consents, or is a party to anything.
1303. R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 7620. Noþeles þe consentour Shal be holde for a lechour.
c. 1380. Antecrist, in Todd, 3 Treat. Wyclif, 153. Þei ben consentours to antecrist, & God is aȝens hem.
1562–3. Act 5 Eliz., c. 11 § 2. The Offendours therin, their Councellours, Consentours and Aydours.
1594. J. King, Jonah (1618), 165. Committers of sinne and consenters vnto it.
1666. Bunyan, Grace Ab., ¶ 150. I would rather have been torn in pieces, than found a consenter thereto.
1796. Bentham, Wks., IX. 115. One unwilling consenter.
