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assent

verb
/əˈsɛnt/

Etymology

From Middle English assent (noun) and assenten (verb), from Old French assent (noun) and assentir (verb), from Latin assentiō.

  1. derived from assentiō
  2. derived from assent
  3. inherited from assent

Definitions

  1. To agree to a proposal.

    • And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.
    • The princess assented to all that was suggested.
    • To assent to the words Of medieval law To pay a corporal price To death, by lapidation

  2. Agreement

    Agreement; act of agreeing.

    • I will give this act my assent.
    • He lowered his head in assent.

  3. A legal instrument that conveys real estate to an heir under the terms of a will.

The neighborhood

Derived

disassent, nonassent, royal assent

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at assent. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01assent02heir03hereditary04right05complying06complies07comply08agree

A definitional loop anchored at assent. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at assent

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA