consentient
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Have I not persistently enquired for the verdict—so far as it has been obtainable—of consentient Antiquity?
From The Revision Revised by John William Burgon
It seems impossible to represent in human speech, or by any symbols intelligible to the human mind, the variety and immensity of this consentient testimony of all historic time and place.
From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by William Benjamin Smith
No such evidence exists for the lions; for the phenomena of so-called spiritualism, we have consentient testimony in every land, period and stage of culture.
From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Andrew Lang
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 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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 John William Burgon
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