consentient
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Brian appearing consentient, Mr. Jardine left him, with Towler in attendance.
From The Golden Calf by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
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
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
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
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