consecutive 
the voices moves only a semitone. Consecutive par- 
ticle in /)>//., a conjunction inipl\in logical conftecu- 
lion : as, iiifii. .<". thtrifon, etc. Consecutive points of 
a curve, coincieieiit points of tanncncy of coinciilftit tan- 
gents. Thus, the tangent to a curve at a node is said to 
a., it i lu> mm: in three coincident point*, of which two are 
nut only coincident, hut (what is more than roinriiii nl) 
eOOMOatlre. I'his means that a ri-ht line cutting the 
curve in iliree points may by n euntinuous inolion lie 
brought into eoinei.lenee with the tangent lit the no.le, 
the three points in this motion i iimiinu up into one, and 
the motion of two of them being, at the limit, entirely 
along the tangent Consecutive poles, in maamttm. 
see ,,,,i, ,</. Consecutive symptoms, ,in jiathol. , symp- 
tom* that appear on the cessation or ilnrinu' th<' decline of 
a disease, tint w Inch have no direct or evident connection 
with the primary ailment. 
II. n. ill. Iii music, consecutive intervals; 
usually, the forbidden progression of consecu- 
tive or parallel fifths or octaves. Covered con- 
SeCUtiveS, in ni"*i<-. a progression of two voices to a uni- 
son, octave, or perfect tilth hy similar but not parallel 
motion, snyut'stinu' the foi-lnddeii progression of consecu- 
tive unisons, octaves, or fifths. Also called hidden <-<HI- 
*,'i-nliri'ti. The particular interval is also called covered or 
/././I/. /( . :is, <<"> i'1-it octaves, covered fifths. 
consecutively (kon-sek'u-tiv-li), adv. In a con- 
secutive manner; in regular succession ; suc- 
cessively. 
consecutiveness (kon-sek'u-tiv-nes), n. The 
rliaractrr or state of being consecutive, or of 
following in regular order. 
conseilt, " A Middle English form of counsel 
and of count-!!. 
conseminatet (kon-sem'i-nat), v. t. [< L. com-, 
together, + seminatus, pp. of seminare, sow, 
< nemi'ii (.W-IH/H-), seed: see semen, seminal.] 
To sow together, as 'different sorts of seeds. 
Bailey. 
consenescence!, consenescencyt (kon-se-nes'- 
ens, -en-si), . [< L. consenescen(t-)s, ppr. of 
consencscere, grow old together, < com-, together, 
+ senescere, grow old : see senescent.'] A grow- 
ing old ; the state of becoming old. 
The old argument for the world's dissolution, . . . its 
daily consenescence and decay. 
Kay, Three Discourses, v. 1. 
consense't, [Early ME. kunsence; < OF. 
fininence, cunsence, f. and m., cunsense, consenge, 
m., = Pr. consensa, f., = Pg. It. consenso, m., 
< ML. conseiitia, f., or consensus, m., consent, 
agreement: see consensus, consent.] Consent. 
Mid kungencc of heorte. Ancren Riwle. 
consenso j t, [( con- + sense.] A sense or 
feeling in conjunction or union with another; 
a mutual feeling. Ciidivorth. 
consension (kpn-sen'shon), n. [< OF. consen- 
cion, consention, consenson, < L. consensio(n-), 
< consentire, pp. consensus, agree: see consent, 
consensus.] Agreement in feeling or thought ; 
accord; mutual consent. [Bare.] 
i MIC mind and understanding, and a vital contention of 
the whole body. Bentley, Sermons, ii. 
Most of the aide, honest, and learned men in all or most 
civilized countries . . . have come to an agreement or 
contention that the single metallic standard of value coined 
In gold is best. N. A. Jiec., CXXVI. 161. 
consensual (kon-sen'gu-al), a. [= F. congen- 
suel = Pg. consensiul, made with consent; < L. 
consensus (coiiscnsu-), agreement (see coiiarii- 
.-iii.i), + -al.] 1. Formed or existing by mere 
consent ; depending upon consent or acquies- 
cence : as, a 1'iiii.ti-ii.iinil marriage. 
"The Christian council of presbyters" exercised disci- 
pline, and ' exercised a cuiixriiKual jurisdiction in matters 
of dispute between Christian and Christian." 
If. A. Jiev., CXIII. 555. 
2. In physiol., excited or caused bjr sympathetic 
action and not by conscious volition. 
In this paper he |l)r. Carpenter) also extended the idea 
of reflex nervous function to the centers of sensation and 
ideation, and enunciated the fundamental notions of "c<w- 
gi'iixiiiil " and of " ideo-motor " action. 
Pop. Set. Mo., XXVIII. 540. 
Consensual contract, in eiril Imp, a contract which, 
though made without the formalities of delivery, writing, 
ur entry in account, was enforcihle on the ground that in 
eases of sale, partnership, agency, and hiring proof of the 
consent of the parties was enough. 
The term i'i'!/*<'n<itit[ merely indicates that the Obliga- 
tion is here annexed at once U> the Consensus. The Con- 
sensus, or miiti: I assent of tile parties, is the final and 
erowniiiL' in^reilieiit in the Convention, and it is the spe- 
cial dun act eristic of au'rt cinenU falling under one of the 
four heads of Sale, Partnership, Agency, and Hiring, that, 
as soon as the assent of the parties has supplied this inmv- 
ilietit. there is at once a Contrin-f. The Consensus draws 
with it tile Obligation, performing, in transactions of the 
sort specified, the exact functions which are discharged, 
in other contracts, !*> the Kes or Thing, hy the Verba stipu- 
lationis, and hy the I.itene or written entry in a ledger. 
<'n,ix'',i*tni! i> therefore a term which ilocs not involve the 
slightest anomaly, l>nt is exactly analogous to Real, Ver- 
lial.aml l.itctal. ' J/.li'/i,. \nciellt Law, p. 322. 
Consensual motions, in ^A.i/*'"/.. two ur more simulta- 
neous motions, of which the secondary or more remote are 
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Independent nf tin' will, such as the contraction of the Iris 
Inn the eye is opened to admit the light, 
consensus (kon-seu'sus), . [< L. consensus 
(ML. also 00M0aMd : see consense 1 ), agreement, 
accordance, unanimity, < consenbre, pp. con- 
sensus, agree: see consent.] A general agree- 
ment or concord: as, a consensus of opinion. 
Individual taste is sometimes mistaken, or substituted, 
for cultured consensus. /'. Hail, Mod. Kng., p. '2tj. 
To gather accurately the coiuerunii of medical opinion 
would be impracticable without polling the whole liody 
of physicians and surgeons. 
II. X;/e;icer, Study of Sociol., p. 88. 
Consensus Genevensla, a document prepared by Calvin 
in 1552 to harmonize the Swiss Protestant churches on the 
doctrine of predestination. 
consent (kon-senf), r. [< ME. consenten, ear- 
lier kuiisenleii, < OF. consentir, cunsentir, F. 
, -IIHXI /// = Pr. Sp. Pg. consen tir = It. <. - 
tire, < L. consentire, pp. consensus, agree, ac- 
cord, consent, lit. feel together, < com-, together, 
+ sentire, pp. sensus, feel: see sense &na scent, 
senft, and cf. assent, dissent, resent.] I. intrans. 
If. To agree in sentiment; be of the same 
mind; accord; be at one. 
Although they consent against Christ, yet doe they much 
dissent among themselues. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 300. 
Flourishing many years before Wyclilfe, and much con- 
senting/ with him in judgment Fuller. 
They would acknowledge no error or fault in their 
writings, and yet would seem sometimes to consent with 
us in the truth. Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 176. 
2. To agree; yield credence or accord; give 
assent, as to a proposition or the terms of an 
agreement. 
I consent unto the law that it is good. Rom. vii. 16. 
M. and N. have contented together in holy wedlock. 
Boole of Common Prayer, Solemnization of Matrimony. 
3. To yield when one has the right, power, or 
desire to oppose; accede, as to persuasion or 
entreaty; aid, or at least voluntarily refrain 
from opposing, the execution of another per- 
son's purpose ; comply. 
My poverty, but not my will, consents. 
Shale., R, andJ., v. 1. 
Ualf loath, and half consenting to the ill. 
Dryden, Abs. and Achit., i. 313. 
His manly brow 
Contents to death, but conquers agony. 
Byron, Childe Harold, Iv. 140. 
= 8yn. See list under accede. Permit, Consent to, etc. See 
aWoMfi . 
II. f trans. To grant; allow; acknowledge; 
give assent to. 
Interpreters . . . will not consent it to be a true story. 
Milton. 
consent (kon-senf), n. [< ME. consents, < OF. 
consents; from the verb.] 1. Voluntary allow- 
ance or acceptance of what is done or proposed 
to be done by another ; a yielding of the mind 
or will to that which is proposed ; acquiescence ; 
concurrence; compliance; permission. 
I saie for me with full concente, 
Thi likyng all will I fulnlle. YorkPlays, p. 462. 
I give content to go along with you. 
Shale., T. O. of V., Iv. 3. 
It was his [our Saviour's] own free consent that he went 
to suffer, for he knew certainly before hand the utmost 
that he was to undergo. Stiltingjleet, Sermons, I. vl. 
2. In law, intelligent concurrence in the adop- 
tion of a contract or an agreement of such a 
nature as to bind the party consenting; agree- 
ment upon the same thing in the same sense. 
Consent of parties is implied in all contracts ; hence, per- 
sons legally incapable of giving consent, as idiots, etc., 
cannot he parties to a contract. Persons in a state of ab- 
solute drunkenness cannot give legal consent, although 
a lesser degree of intoxication will not afford a sufficient 
ground for annulling a contract. Consent is null where 
it proceeds on essential mistake of fact, or where obtained 
by fraud or by force and fear. 
3. Agreement in opinion or sentiment; unity 
of opinion or inclination. 
Nowe renewed, and affenned and confenned, by the 
assente and connente and agrement off all the Bredern. 
English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 187. 
They flock together in consent, like so many wild geese. 
SAnt.,2Hen. IV., v. 1. 
Hereupon a Parliament is called ; and ft is by common 
Consent of all agreed, that the King should not go in Per- 
son. Baker, Chronicles, p. 111. 
When the wills of many concur to one and the same 
action and effect, this concourse of their wills is called 
,-,/. llnbbf*. Works, IV. xii. 
^ ei hold ! I'm rich ; with one consent they'll gay, 
" You're welcome, Cncle, as the flowers in May.' 
Crabbe, Parish Register. 
4f. A preconcerted design ; concert. 
Hue was a content 
(Knowing aforehand of our merriment) 
To dash it like a Christmas comedy. 
Shak.,L. L.L., v. 2. 
consequence 
5. Agreement ; correspondence in parts, qual- 
ities, or operation; harmony; concord. [Ar- 
chaic.] 
We ... do glue the name of ryine onely to our eun- 
cordei, or tunable coiuentei In the latter end of our verses. 
PutUnham, Arte of F.ng. 1'm-sie, p. 04. 
Certainly there is a consent between the IH|) and the 
soul. ttactm, Deformity. 
The rich results of the ilii , 
Of man and earth, of world beloved and lover, 
The nectar and ambrosia, are withheld. 
A'ni'-mm, blight. 
6. In pathol., an agreement or sympathy, by 
which one affected part of the system affects 
some distant part. See sympathy. Age of con- 
sent. See agi, n., :i. =Sjrn. 1. Assent, Consent, Coitcvr- 
rence, etc. See awitt. 
consentable (kon-sen'ta-bl), a. [< consent + 
-ti/i/c.] In J'ennfrylrania law, having consent ; 
agreed upon; noting a boundary established 
by the express agreement or assent of adjoin- 
ing owners : as, a consentable line. 
consentaneity (kon-seu-ta-ne'i-ti), . [< L. 
consrntnneus, agreeing (see consentaneous), + 
-ity.] Mutual agreement. [Rare.] 
The contentaneity or even privity of Prussia. 
London Times, Jan. 18, 1856. 
consentaneous (kon-sen-ta'ne-us), a. (= Pg. 
It. consentaneo, < L. consentaneus, agreeing, ac- 
cordant, fit, < consentire, agree : see consent, t'.] 
Agreeing ; accordant ; agreeable ; consistent ; 
consenting ; mutually acquiescent. 
A good law and contentaneous to reason. 
IlnmU, Letters, IT. 7. 
The tendency of Europe in our own day . . . has been 
singularly consentaneous in the return not merely to medi- 
eval art, but to mediieval modes and standards of thought. 
Encyc. Brit., II. S33. 
The settlement or " compromise " of 1850, made by the 
consentaneous action of the North and South, rested, as on 
a corner stone, upon the inviolable character of the settle- 
ment of 1820, known as the Missouri Compromise. 
O. T. Curtis, Buchanan, II. 270. 
consentaneously (kon-sen-ta'ne-us-li), adr. 
Agreeably ; accordantly ; consistently. 
Paracelsus did not always write so consentaneously to 
himself. Boyle. 
consentaneousness (kon-sen-ta'ne-us-nes), M. 
Agreement ; accordance ; consistency. It'. B. 
Carpenter. 
consentantt, [ME., < OF. consentant, ppr. of 
consentir, consent: see consent, t'.] Assenting; 
consenting. Chaucer. 
consenter (kon-sen'ter), n. One who consents. 
Xo party nor consenter to it [treason]. 
Sir M. Hale, Hist. Plac. Cor., Ii. 28. 
consentience (kon-sen'shieus), n. [< consen- 
tient: see -encc"] The sum of the psychical 
activities of an animal whose varied sensations 
converge to a common psychical center, so that 
it feels its mental unity without being distinctly 
conscious of it ; imperfect or undeveloped con- 
sciousness in general. 
Luminous Impressions which are the most potent agents 
in educating animal cvnsentitnce. 
Contemporary Rea., LI. 677. 
We may, when our mind is entirely directed upon some 
external object, or when we are almost in a state of som- 
nolent unconsciousness, have but a vague feeling of our 
existence a feeling resulting from the unobserved synthe- 
sis of our sensations of all orders and degrees. This unln- 
tellcctual sense of self may be conveniently distinguished 
from intellectual consciousness as consentience. 
Mimrt, Proc. Zool. Soc., London, 1884, p. 463. 
consentient (kon-sen'shient), a. [= Sp. con- 
senciente = Pg. consensienie = It. consenziente, < 
L. consentien(t-)s, ppr. of consentire, agree: see 
consent, r., and cf. consentant.] 1. Consonant ; 
congruent; agreeing: as, consentient testimony. 
The cmisentient judgment of the church. Bp. Pearson. 
2. Endowed with consentience ; of the nature 
of consentience: as, consentient animals; con- 
sentient activities. 
consentingly (kon-sen'ting-li), adv. In a con- 
senting or acquiescent manner. Jer. Taylor. 
consentmentt (kon-sent'ment), . [ME. eon- 
.-,-, affluent; < OF. (and F.) "consentement = Sp. 
consentimiento = Pg. It. consentimento, < ML. 
consentinientum, consent, < L. consentire, con- 
sent: see consent, v.] Consent. 
consequence (kon'se-kwens), M. [= F. const- 
quence = Sp. consecuencia = Pg. consequencia = 
It. conseguenza, conseguemia (obs.), coiuequi-ii- 
:a = D. konsekvjentie=Qr. consequem= Dan. kon- 
sekrents, consequence, < L. conscquentia, < con- 
sequen(t-)s, ppr., consequent: see conse qiirut.] 
If. Connection of cause and effect, or of ante- 
cedent and consequent ; consecution. 
I must alter tine, with this thy son ; 
Such fatal consequence unites us three. 
Hilton, P. L., X. 364. 
