consent

Recorded in Middle English since circa 1225, borrowed from Old French consentir, from Latin cōnsentīre, present active infinitive of cōnsentiō (“to feel together”), itself from com- (“with”) + sentiō (“to feel”)

• IPA^(key): /kənˈsɛnt/
• Rhymes: -ɛnt
• Hyphenation: con‧sent

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consent (third-person singular simple present consents, present participle consenting, simple past and past participle consented) (intransitive)

1. To express willingness, to give permission.

   After reflecting a little bit, I've consented.

   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     My poverty, but not my will, consents.

2. (medicine) To cause to sign a consent form.
   • 2002, T Usmani; KD O'Brien, HV Worthington, S Derwent, D …, “A randomized clinical trial to compare the effectiveness of canine lacebacks with reference to …”, in Journal of Orthodontics:

     When the patient was consented to enter the study and registered, a telephone call was made to research assistant

3. (obsolete) To grant; to allow; to assent to.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     Interpreters […] will not consent it to be a true story.

4. To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Bible, Acts viii. 1

     And Saul was consenting unto his death.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Fuller

     Flourishing many years before Wyclif, and much consenting with him in judgment.

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

• (intransitive): acquiesce, agree, approve, assent, concur, yes

• (intransitive): disagree, object, oppose

• consenting

consent (countable and uncountable, plural consents)

1. Voluntary agreement or permission.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 6, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     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.

2. (obsolete) Unity or agreement of opinion, sentiment, or inclination.
   • 1604-11, Bible (King James Version), Luke: XIV:18

     And they all with one consent began to make excuse.

3. (obsolete) Advice; counsel.

• (voluntary agreement): agreement, approval, assent, consensualness, permission, willingness, yes

• (voluntary agreement): dissent, disagreement, opposition, refusal

• consenter
• consentaneous
• age of consent

• consent at OneLook Dictionary Search
• consent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• nocents

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.sɑ̃/

consent

1. third-person singular present indicative of consentir