ppl. a. and sb. [ad. L. assentient-em, pr. pple. of assentīri to ASSENT. Takes the place of the earlier ASSENTANT.]
A. adj. Assenting, approving, accordant.
1851. Nichol, Archit. Heavens, 271. [They] could obtain assentient hearers for the doctrine.
1866. J. Rose, Ovid’s Met., 49. To this the powers marine assentient are.
B. sb. One who assents or agrees; an assenter.
1859. Smiles, G. Stephenson, 241. Lords Derby and Sefton … were found among the assentients to the London and Birmingham line.
1860. Lit. Ch.-man, VI. 45. We find … fifty assentients in the Lower House.
