consent

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   permission to do something

   I indicated my consent by signing the legal documents.

2. 2
   verb

   To express willingness, to give permission.

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

3. 3
   verb

   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

4. 4
   verb

   To grant; to allow; to assent to.

   Interpreters […] will not consent it to be a true story.

5. 5
   verb

   To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.

   And Saul was consenting unto his death.

6. 6
   noun

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   Unity or agreement of opinion, sentiment, or inclination.

   And they all with one consent began to make excuse.

8. 8
   verb

   to give an affirmative reply to

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”)