[f. ASSENT v. + -ER. Cf. ASSENTOR.] One who gives assent or acquiescence.

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1634.  Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 337 (T.). Seemingly an assenter to their meschanteries.

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a. 1674.  Clarendon, Hist. Reb. (1720), III. I. x. 108. As Witnesses only … not as Assenters.

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a. 1859.  De Quincey, Pope, Wks. IX. 39. A careless and indolent assenter to such doctrines … as his own Church put forward.

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