a. [f. L. ūnanimis, -us: see UNANIME a.]
1. Of persons: Of one mind or opinion; agreed.
1624. Donne, Serm., Wks. 1839, IV. 585. Be the fathers as clear, and as unanimous as they will in it.
1637. R. Humfrey, trans. St. Ambrose, I. 70. Let not thine unanimous friend nor thy brother know what thou dost.
1697. Addison, Ess. Georgics, ¶ 1. All are Unanimous in giving him the Precedence to Hesiod in his Georgics.
1744. Harris, Three Treat., Wks. (1841), 43. You cannot forget (for we were both unanimous) the contempt in which we held those superficial censurers.
1783. W. Thomson, Watson’s Philip III., VI. 475. The council was unanimous that he ought immediately to be recalled.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. II. 146. The English Roman Catholics … were almost unanimous in favour of the Act of Settlement.
1873. Hamerton, Intell. Life, X. v. 388. Physicians are unanimous in their preference of early to late work.
2. Of beliefs, statements, actions, etc.: Exhibiting general agreement or consent.
1675. trans. Camden’s Hist. Eliz., III. 402. The universall and unanimous Belief of all men carried it for certain Truth, that a most invincible Armada was rigged and prepared in Spain against England.
1691. Wood, Ath. Oxon, II. 685. Dr. Atkins was nominated by the unanimous Votes of the said Presbytery.
a. 1727. Newton, Chronol. Amended, vi. (1728), 352. By the unanimous consent of all Chronologers.
1772. Burke, Corr. (1844), I. 363. Without their own vigorous and unanimous efforts in their own cause, our endeavours will be of no service.
1856. Froude, Hist. Eng. (1858), II. vii. 22. The nation seemed to unite in an unanimous declaration of freedom.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), V. 3. The genuineness of the Laws is sufficiently proved … by the unanimous voice of later antiquity.
