Crossword clues for assent
assent
- Nod when told to go?
- Approval for top grades issued
- Help to secure new agreement
- Advantage, securing Nanny’s initial approval
- Give the go-ahead
- Give the okay
- Give the green light
- The nod
- Give approval
- Agree to
- Indicate agreement
- Be agreeable
- Just say yes
- Give an OK
- Give the thumbs-up
- Say OK
- Nod, perhaps
- Expression of agreement
- What a green light may represent
- "Yessir," e.g
- Yes-man's offering
- Nod of the head, for one
- Nod meaning
- "Aye," e.g
- What nods may mean
- What initials on a document may signify
- What a nod signals
- Give the thumbs up
- Give one's okay
- Give one's OK
- Express approval or agreement
- Be a yes man
- "Wilco," e.g
- "Yessir," e.g.
- O.K.
- Green light
- Give the nod
- Say "A-O.K."
- Ratification
- Nod, say
- What a stamp may indicate
- Concurrence
- Thumbs-up
- Say yes
- Agree (to)
- Go-ahead
- Yes vote
- Nonprofit groups, often
- Say so
- Nod of the head, say
- What initials on something may signify
- "Aye," e.g.
- Eager (to)
- Agreement (to a proposal)
- Acquiesce
- Sanction
- Acquiescence
- Say yea
- Approval
- Aye or yea
- Concur
- Agreement as communicated
- Agreement from number overwhelmed by strength
- Comply when told to go
- Agree when in an ecstatic state?
- Express agreement
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Assent \As*sent"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assented; p. pr. & vb. n. Assenting.] [F. assentir, L. assentire, assentiri; ad + sentire to feel, think. See Sense.] To admit a thing as true; to express one's agreement, acquiescence, concurrence, or concession.
Who informed the governor . . . And the Jews also
assented, saying that these things were so.
--Acts
xxiv. 9.
The princess assented to all that was suggested.
--Macaulay.
Syn: To yield; agree; acquiesce; concede; concur.
Assent \As*sent"\, n. [OE. assent, fr. assentir. See Assent, v.] The act of assenting; the act of the mind in admitting or agreeing to anything; concurrence with approval; consent; agreement; acquiescence.
Faith is the assent to any proposition, on the credit
of the proposer.
--Locke.
The assent, if not the approbation, of the prince.
--Prescott.
Too many people read this ribaldry with assent and
admiration.
--Macaulay.
Royal assent, in England, the assent of the sovereign to a bill which has passed both houses of Parliament, after which it becomes law.
Syn: Concurrence; acquiescence; approval; accord.
Usage: Assent, Consent. Assent is an act of the understanding, consent of the will or feelings. We assent to the views of others when our minds come to the same conclusion with theirs as to what is true, right, or admissible. We consent when there is such a concurrence of our will with their desires and wishes that we decide to comply with their requests. The king of England gives his assent, not his consent, to acts of Parliament, because, in theory at least, he is not governed by personal feelings or choice, but by a deliberate, judgment as to the common good. We also use assent in cases where a proposal is made which involves but little interest or feeling. A lady may assent to a gentleman's opening the window; but if he offers himself in marriage, he must wait for her consent.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "consent, approval," from Old French assent, a back-formation from assentir (see assent (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. agreement, act of agreeing vb. 1 To agree to, give approval. 2 To admit a thing as true.
WordNet
n. agreement with a statement or proposal to do something; "he gave his assent eagerly"; "a murmur of acquiescence from the assembly" [syn: acquiescence]
v. to agree or express agreement; "The Maestro assented to the request for an encore" [syn: accede, acquiesce] [ant: dissent]
Wikipedia
Assent can refer to:
- Assent (Belgium), a Belgian village between Bekkevoort and Diest
- Assent (philosophy), the mental act of accepting a statement as true
- Offer and acceptance
- Royal Assent
- Assent (military), Austrian mil. accept (s.o.) for military servict ()
Assent, also assentation was the process of incorporation (recruitment) of persons liable to military service into the former Austro-Hungarian Army (1867–1918). It was also the designation for the purchase of horses by the so-called remount-commission (de: Remonte-Kommission). The word comes from the Latin as-sentãrĩ, and means literal agree to, accede to, or to determine someone fit for a defined purpose (e.g. military service).
Assent was also the integration of military cadets (after passed cadet´s examination) into the Austrian armed forces.
Usage examples of "assent".
He was bewildered, for instance, by her new and to him quite inexplicable reluctance to respond to their familiar urinary tune by singing the antistrophe that signified assent, and crouching to relieve herself.
The address was seconded by Lord Portman, and fully assented to by the Duke of Wellington, who said he would follow the example which had been set him of abstaining from every remark that could awaken party feeling.
Ireland in respect to crime and outrage, more especially when the exercise of that right by the house of lords does not interfere with any previous proceeding or resolution of the house of commons, nor with the progress of any legislative measure assented to by the house of commons, or at present under its consideration.
To this proposal the Persian ministers at first assented, but they afterwards rejected it altogether.
After this, the bill was considerably delayed in its progress by a great variety of amendments suggested by members on both sides of the house, to several of which government assented, and one or two of which were carried against the wishes of ministers.
They sworen and assented every man To live with her and die, and by her stand: And every one, in the best wise he can, To strengthen her shall all his friendes fand.
As thou hast heard, assented here right now To my purpose: Placebo, what say ye?
One was convinced and believed and assented because it was gratifying and delightful to think and feel and believe in unison with an intellect of such evident superiority.
The summary touched lightly on most of the controversial political questions, and contained nothing to which the Democrats would not have readily assented except the declaration for universal suffrage.
It is not to be denied that they had the inherent right, inside of Constitutional limitations, to repeal the laws of their States, and even to change the Constitution itself, if they should do it by prescribed methods and by honest majorities, and should not, in the process, disturb the fundamental conditions upon which the General Government had assented to their re-admission to the right of representation in Congress.
It is somewhat interesting to compare the platform to which the Democrats assented in 1872 with any they had ever before adopted, or with the record of their senators and representatives in Congress upon all the public questions at issue during the years immediately preceding the Convention.
The President, therefore, does not feel himself at liberty to entertain a proposition which would require the conclusion of a new treaty in Constitutional form before the proposition could be assented to by the United States.
To this Sir Edward cordially assented, and the gentlemen separated, happy in their arrangements to advance the welfare of two beings they so sincerely loved.
To this arrangement the recluse assented, and Emily prepared for the ball with a melancholy recollection of the consequences which grew out of the last she had attended--melancholy at the fate of Digby, and pleasure at the principles manifested by Denbigh, on the occasion.
Emily, feeling every way unequal to a meeting with Denbigh, gladly assented After ringing for her maid to sit in the adjoining room, Mrs.