a. [ad. L. consentient-em, pr. pple. of consentīre to CONSENT: see -ENT.]
1. Agreeing with each other, or united in opinion; unanimous as to a matter.
1622. Sparrow, Bk. Com. Prayer (1661), 37. The consentient Testimony … of the Church.
1659. Pearson, Creed (1839), 30. The consentient acknowledgment of mankind.
1773. J. Allen, Serm. at St. Mary’s Oxf., 18. The earliest councils … were consentient in this article.
1878. Lecky, Eng. in 18th C., I. iii. 372. The consentient opinion of contemporaries.
b. Acting together to the same end; concurrent.
1737. Common Sense (1738), I. 237. It … recovers the consentient Nerves to their due Tension and Elasticity.
1830. Herschel, Stud. Nat. Phil., 233. The pressure on all the similar parts … will be united into one consentient force.
1881. Ramsay, in Nature, No. 618. 420. With great and consentient labour.
c. Having or exhibiting consentience (sense 2).
1877. Lewes, Phys. Basis of Mind, 360. Psychological observation assures us that the conscious and unconscious states were both consentient, and were both operative in the same degree.
Mod. Not conscious but consentient agents. Consentient processes.
2. a. Accordant in opinion to. b. Consenting, giving full consent to.
1661. Grand Debate, 111. What is here consentient to Antiquity.
1687. Towerson, Baptism, 155. A consentient text in the Epistle to the Hebrews.
1876. Black, Madcap V., xxv. 235. All their friends were consentient.
1883. Miss Braddon, Gold. Calf, II. 174. Her husband being consentient to this life-long separation.
