consentient
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The conclusions thus recommended to us by the consentient primitive traditions of so many races, have lately received most important and unexpected confirmation from the results of linguistic research.
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
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
It will be admitted that the consentient testimony of persons in every stage of belief and prejudice, of ignorance and learning, cannot agree, as it does agree, by virtue of some "fluctuation of public opinion".
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew
If that witness is consentient, or very nearly so, whether for or against any given reading, I hold it to be decisive.
From The Revision Revised by Burgon, John William
