consent
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: 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-).
Affixes: con-
Inflected forms:
form: consents
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: consenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: consented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: consented
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: consent
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: consent
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: consented
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: consent
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: consentest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: consented
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: consentedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: consents
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: consenteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: consented
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: consent
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: consented
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: consent
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: consented
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: consent
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: consenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: consented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: consents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To express willingness, to give permission.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: After reflecting a little bit, I've decided to consent to her practising the piano in the house.
My poverty, but not my will, consents.
gloss: To cause to sign a consent form.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: When the patient was consented to enter the study and registered, a telephone call was made to research assistant
gloss: To grant; to allow; to assent to.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
transitive
examples: Interpreters […] will not consent it to be a true story.
gloss: To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: And Saul was consenting unto his death.
Flourishing many years before Wyclif, and much consenting with him in judgment.
gloss: Voluntary agreement or permission.
pos: noun
tags: countable
intransitive
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Unity or agreement of opinion, sentiment, or inclination.
pos: noun
tags: countable
intransitive
obsolete
uncountable
examples: And they all with one consent began to make excuse.
gloss: Advice; counsel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
intransitive
obsolete
uncountable
Derived words: consentability
consentee
consenter
consentor
consent or pay
mutual consent
mutually consent
reconsent
disconsent
preconsent
advice and consent
age of consent
by common consent
consensual non-consent
consentaneous
consent decree
consentful
consentless
consent of the governed
consent search
consentual
e-consent
implied consent
informed consent
manufactured consent
manufacture of consent
nonconsent
silence is consent
unconsent
with one consent
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