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What is "concent"

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Concent

Concent \Con*cent"\, n. [L. concentus, fr. concinere to sing together; con- + canere to sing.]

  1. Concert of voices; concord of sounds; harmony; as, a concent of notes. [Archaic.]
    --Bacon.

    That undisturbed song of pure concent.
    --Milton.

  2. Consistency; accordance. [Obs.]

    In concent to his own principles.
    --Atterbury.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
concent

"harmony," 1580s, from Latin concentus "a singing together, harmony," from concinere "to sing or sound together," from com- "with, together" (see com-) + canere "to sing" (see chant (v.)). Often misspelled consent or confused with that word.

Wiktionary
concent

n. (context archaic English) harmony(attention en which meaning? music? Not common, hard to tell, but not just music)

Usage examples of "concent".

He gave them then a much admirable hymen minim by those delicate poets Master John Fletcher and Master Francis Beaumont that is in their Maid's Tragedy that was writ for a like twining of lovers: To bed, to bed was the burden of it to be played with accompanable concent upon the virginals.