consentient

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If clear and consentient Patristic testimony to the Text of Scripture is not to be deemed forcible witness to its Truth,—whither shall a man betake himself for constraining Evidence?

From The Revision Revised by Burgon, John William

On the other hand, the facts of rappings, ghosts, clairvoyance, in spite of the universally consentient evidence, are very doubtful facts after all. 

From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew

Their authority for this reading is the consentient testimony of the four oldest MSS. which contain S. Luke ii.

From The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark by Burgon, John William

On another occasion, when Bradshaw attributed the charge against the king to the consentient voice of the people of England, the same female voice exclaimed, "No, not one-tenth of the people."

From The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 by Belloc, Hilaire

Sound in doctrine according to the consentient testimony of Scripture and the Church.

From The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous