consent

//kənˈsɛnt//

formal

Forms

1.To express willingness, to give permission.
- My poverty, but not my will, consents.
- After reflecting a little bit, I've decided to consent to her practising the piano in the house.
2.To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
- And Saul was consenting unto his death.
- Flourishing many years before Wyclif, and much consenting with him in judgment.
3.To cause to sign a consent form.

1.Voluntary agreement or permission.
- All men know by experience, there be some parts of our bodies which often without any consent of ours doe stirre, stand, and lye down againe.

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Recorded in Middle English since circa 1225, borrowed from Old French consentir

From Latin cōnsentīre (“to agree; to assent, consent”), itself from com- (“with”) + sentiō (“to feel”) (whence con-).