consent · Contextualize

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”)

derived from cōnsentiō — “to agree; to assent, consent”
derived from consentir

Definitions

1
To express willingness, to give permission.
- 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.
2
To cause to sign a consent form.
- When the patient was consented to enter the study and registered, a telephone call was made to research assistant
3
To grant
To grant; to allow; to assent to.
- Interpreters […] will not consent it to be a true story.
›+ 4 more definitionsshow fewer
1. 4
  To agree in opinion or sentiment
  To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
  - And Saul was consenting unto his death.
  - Flourishing many years before Wyclif, and much consenting with him in judgment.
2. 5
  Voluntary agreement or permission.
  - 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.
3. 6
  Unity or agreement of opinion, sentiment, or inclination.
  - And they all with one consent began to make excuse.
4. Advice
  Advice; counsel.

The neighborhood

Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at consent. 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.

A definitional loop anchored at consent. 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 consent

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