consentient

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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

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 Lang, Andrew

This principle is often illustrated in the independent yet consentient testimony of the whole body of the Cursives and later Uncials61.

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

What have I done, 52 What have I been, that thus the favouring gods And the consentient strength of hostile States Conspire to make me happy?

From Gycia A Tragedy in Five Acts by Morris, Lewis, Sir

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