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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”)

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

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

1. (intransitive) To express willingness, to give permission.

   After reflecting a little bit, I've decided to consent to her practising the piano in the house.

   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     My poverty, but not my will, consents.

2. (transitive, medicine) To cause to sign a consent form.

   • 2002, T Usmani with KD O'Brien, HV Worthington, S Derwent, et al., “A randomized clinical trial to compare the effectiveness of canine lacebacks with reference to canine tip”, in Journal of Orthodontics, volume 29, number 4, →DOI, →PMID:

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

3. (transitive, obsolete) To grant; to allow; to assent to.
4. To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):

     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, connive

• (antonym(s) of “intransitive”): disagree, object, oppose

Category English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sent- (feel) not found

consent (countable and uncountable, plural consents)

1. Voluntary agreement or permission.

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 6, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     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.
3. (obsolete) Advice; counsel.

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

• (antonym(s) of “voluntary agreement”): dissent, disagreement, opposition, refusal

• “consent”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “consent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• nocents

consent

1. inflection of consentir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.sɑ̃/

consent

1. third-person singular present indicative of consentir

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