consentient

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The proper proof of the statement is the consentient voice of all the copies,—except about nineteen of loose character:—we know their vagaries but too well, and decline to let them impose upon us.

From The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Miller, Edward

Not that even these seven so-called consentient witnesses are in complete accord among themselves.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William

Whatsoever in nature is moved naturally, the same is set in motion both by its own forces and by the consentient compact of other bodies.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

The 1490 MSS. which are constantly observed to bear consentient testimony against the ten, date somewhat thus:— 1: a.d.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William

But, with the catchwords of Utilitarianism ringing in their ears, the commentators ran straight contrary to the true teaching of the Protagoras, consentient as it is with that of the Phaedo and the Philebus.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich