noun
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Voluntary agreement or permission.
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Unity or agreement of opinion, sentiment, or inclination.
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Advice; counsel.
verb
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To express willingness, to give permission.
example
After reflecting a little bit, I've consented.
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To cause to sign a consent form.
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To grant; to allow; to assent to.
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To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
Examples of consents in a Sentence
At last the prophet consents to give up his spirit to God, who has prepared for him a crown of immortality.
The king consents, the saint is acclaimed, the bodies of the thirty-seven martyrs solemnly interred, and the king, after fasting five, and listening to Gregory's homilies for sixty days, is healed.
The goddess consents, and creates Eabani, who is described as a wild man, living with the gazelles and the beasts of the field.
By these Cuba was bound not to incur debts her current revenues will not bear; to continue the sanitary administration undertaken by the military government of intervention; to lease naval stations (since located at Bahia Honda and Guantanamo) to the United States; and finally, the right of the United States to intervene, if necessary, in the affairs of the island was explicitly affirmed in the provision, " That the government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the protection of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property and individual liberty, and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the government of Cuba."
Under the old commercial treaties which lapsed about 1890 - but which have been maintained " provisionally " in force until one or other of the great powers consents to set a term to the negotiation of fresh treaties - an ad valorem duty of 8% was imposed on all articles imported into the Turkish empire.
Thus a West African native who wants a suhman takes a rudely-cut wooden image or a stone, a root of a plant, or some red earth placed in a pan, and then he calls on a spirit of Sasabonsum ("a genus of deities, every member of which possesses identical characteristics") to enter the object prepared, promising it offerings and worship. If a spirit consents to take up its residence in the object, a low hissing sound is heard, and the suhman is complete.
Next day the siege begins, and after forty days the famished inhabitants urge the governor Ozias to surrender, which he consents to do unless relieved in five days.
In ealdorman Alfred's will the testator disposes freely of his bookland estates in favour of his sons and his daughter, but to a son who is not considered as rightful offspring five hides of folkland are left, provided the king consents.
The EAW has a good record of monitoring and enforcing compliance with licensed effluent discharge consents.
Please do not redistribute the movies without written consents from the authors.
The new roundhouse required the appropriate planning consents and visits from the Building Officer and Fire Officer at the various stages of its construction.
At TVC " consents " have already been obtained and exist for standard audience rostra and agreed configurations.