Definition of Assentient

1. Adjective. Expressing agreement or consent. "An assenting nod"

Similar to: Affirmative, Affirmatory
Derivative terms: Assent

Definition of Assentient

1. a. Assenting.

Literary usage of Assentient

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Analytical Digest of the Cases Published in the New Series of the Law by Edmund Story-Maskelyne (1872)
"192, of a trust deed so formed, even as against a non-assentient separate creditor. 2.—Throughout the Bankruptcy Act, 1861, the word "creditor" is used in ..."

2. Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Lord Chancellor and the Court by John Peter De Gex, Henry Cadman Jones, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Richard Horton Smith, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1874)
"In calculating the statutory majority of assentient creditors required under the Bankruptcy Act, 1861, § 192, to render a deed under that section binding on ..."

3. Reports of Bankruptcy Appeals: Heard and Determined by the Lord Chancellor by John Peter De Gex, Henry Cadman Jones, Richard Horton Smith (1874)
"ID calculating the statutory majority of assentient creditors required under the ... 192, to render a deed under that section binding on mm assentient ..."

4. Journal of the Institute of Actuaries and Assurance Magazine by Institute of Actuaries (Great Britain) (1875)
"4s., and the difference between this value and the fixed rate of £227 upon the assentient assurances, together with the saving of expenses, now exceeding ..."

5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1884)
"0. How does one imply praise? W. By not concurring in censure. Did you make any assentient reply to my remark upon the “acres of ..."

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