[Specific legal form of ASSENTER: see -OR.] An assenter; spec. applied to those who, in addition to the proposer and seconder, subscribe the nomination-paper of a candidate in a parliamentary or other election.
1880. McCarthy, Own Times, lix. 307. A proposer and seconder and eight assentors.
1883. Pall Mall Gaz., 27 June, 3/1. One of his proposers … was an episcopalian Protestant, while several of his assentors are Presbyterian farmers.
