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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
consent
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
age of consent
by common consent (=with everyone’s agreement)
▪ Joe was chosen as captain by common consent.
consenting adult
express agreement/consent/authority etc
▪ He is not to leave without my express permission.
prior approval/consent/permission
▪ A sale of the factory will need the prior approval of shareholders.
the age of consent (=when you are legally allowed to marry or have sex)
▪ At 15, the girl was under the age of consent.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
informed
▪ Patients subjected to research need the twin protection of informed consent and surveillance by ethics committees.
▪ Written informed consent was obtained from each patient before the study.
▪ Ensuring that patients participating in drug trials give fully informed consent will need careful handling.
▪ A minor seeking an abortion was required to obtain parental consent. Informed consent.
▪ The study was approved by the ethics committee of our university and informed consent was obtained from all patients and healthy volunteers.
▪ In almost all cases testing may only be done with the fully informed consent of the person being tested.
▪ Under the relevant sections it states that the patient's informed consent is required before certain designated treatments can be carried out.
▪ This study received approval from our local Ethical Committee and all patients provided written, informed consent.
mutual
▪ During the meal, as if by mutual consent, they talked of other things, but it was difficult.
▪ I left home by mutual consent!
▪ If this is the case, the exemption no longer applies to couples living apart by mutual consent.
▪ Changes to borders can come about only by mutual agreement and consent.
▪ Any disputes must be settled by mutual consent.
▪ Mutual consent An employment contract may be brought to an end by the mutual consent of the parties.
▪ One elderly woman quickly left the program by mutual consent.
parental
▪ If any prizewinner is under 18, then parental consent must be obtained before the prize can be awarded.
▪ A bill that would have required parental consent for abortions died during the last session.
▪ A minor seeking an abortion was required to obtain parental consent.
▪ And the statutes indicated that you could use reasonable force in terms of restraint so long as there was parental consent.
▪ Entrants under 18 must supply parental consent. 4.
▪ The governor said he will urge the 1997 Legislature to require parental consent for abortions performed on minors.
▪ Informed parental consent was obtained before the study.
▪ It also mandated that no child could be hit without parental consent.
prior
▪ All the trustee's significant administrative powers required the prior consent of the settlor.
▪ A Class 4 transaction will normally require the prior consent of the company in a general meeting.
▪ None of these will be documented without prior consent.
▪ There was an immediate outcry. Prior consent is a condition of genetic testing.
tacit
▪ Locke also suggests that a man's presence in a particular state implies tacit consent to its political system.
▪ His answer depends on a distinction between tacit and explicit consent.
▪ By remaining in society, one gives one's tacit consent to it.
written
▪ The study was approved by the Western Infirmary Ethical Committee and all patients gave written, informed consent.
▪ All subjects had voluntarily given written informed consent before the start of the study.
▪ The studies were approved by the ethics committee, and all volunteers gave written informed consent.
▪ In the case of non-private customers, prior written notification is sometimes acceptable in place of the customer's written consent.
▪ All gave fully informed written consent.
▪ All subjects gave informed written consent before the study.
■ NOUN
decree
▪ Microsoft dismissed the allegations as unfounded, saying its practices were specifically allowed by the consent decree.
▪ But the company has vigorously asserted that its marketing practices do not violate the 1995 consent decree.
▪ The consent decree was drafted and released to the press in November.
▪ One new provision would prevent the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from entering into consent decrees with employers in job-discrimination lawsuits.
▪ The decree calls for both to be hired as consent decree administrators, charged with designing and implementing the restructuring plans.
▪ Reno contends Microsoft violated a 1995 consent decree by tying the licensing and distribution of Windows and its browser.
form
▪ They immediately signed a consent form for the operation to take place.
▪ After Elinor had signed her voluntary consent form, she and Adam were taken to her suite of rooms.
▪ On hospital attendance, each patient completed a questionnaire and a consent form.
▪ I was too young to sign the consent form and when Malc arrived, he also was found to be too young.
▪ All the patients included signed an informed consent form.
▪ A patient who signs a consent form for a surgical operation can not later sue the surgeon for battery.
▪ You will be asked to sign a consent form agreeing to any of these treatments.
▪ Mrs Smith signed the consent form because Julie was under 16 years of age.
planning
▪ The deal is conditional on the supermarket group obtaining planning consent to build a store on the site.
▪ With it went planning consent for the sheltered accommodation units.
▪ It is intended that priority then will be given to obtaining planning consent for this Section.
▪ It should also take account of planning consent already given, making planners consider communities as an integrated whole.
▪ Potton can advise on land sales and required planning consent.
▪ First, to improve the conditions that can be imposed on a planning consent for the restoration of mineral working.
■ VERB
give
▪ Further, the county council has not yet given its consent to the imposition of any traffic regulations.
▪ And when the nuns told him of the fragrance still emanating from the grave, he gave his consent for the exhumation.
▪ Ensuring that patients participating in drug trials give fully informed consent will need careful handling.
▪ All subjects had voluntarily given written informed consent before the start of the study.
▪ The study was approved by the institutional review board of the Mayo Clinic and all patients gave written consent.
▪ All subjects gave informed consent for the study, which was approved by the local ethical committee.
▪ It was published in 1959 and the trustees gave their consent.
▪ I have given my consent, intending to gratify her wishes in this respect only for a short while.
grant
▪ According to my religion, I could, so long as my wife grants her consent.
▪ A number of acts of development are granted consent by two Statutory Instruments issued under the 1971 Act.
inform
▪ Ensuring informed patient consent to release of information to third parties is obtained is important for service research.
▪ All patients gave written informed consent.
need
▪ These place the parties in a similar position to an asset sale, namely needing the consent of a third party.
▪ Unfortunately, under present rules, such a constitutional change needs parliament's consent.
▪ The substitution of the vendor before the sale would need the consent of each affected employee.
obtain
▪ Frequently on smaller contracts, builders do not formally obtain consent and assume that it would be granted.
▪ A minor seeking an abortion was required to obtain parental consent.
▪ The DoE was able to confirm that most of the advertisers involved had not obtained their consent.
▪ A company's name must not include a trade mark unless its owner's consent is obtained.
▪ Prior to the making of such alterations the tenants should obtain the consent of the landlord to the proposed alterations.
▪ Before the study we obtained informed consent from all subjects.
refuse
▪ Shortly after buying it, Denega was refused listed building consent to demolish the chapel and develop 21 sheltered accommodation units.
▪ Lord penning said: The Attorney-General tells us that when he refuses his consent, his refusal is final.
▪ This is a misconception because the next of kin has no legal right either to consent or to refuse consent.
require
▪ Health authorities are advised that introduction of new screening programmes requires ethical research committee consent.
▪ A bill that would have required parental consent for abortions died during the last session.
▪ A minor seeking an abortion was required to obtain parental consent.
▪ The governor said he will urge the 1997 Legislature to require parental consent for abortions performed on minors.
▪ It requires the consent of the Panel.
▪ A Class 4 transaction will normally require the prior consent of the company in a general meeting.
▪ Accordingly, the reciprocal exchange of membership lists may require a specific consent from all those persons on the lists.
▪ He explained that this was unusual, and would require her husband's consent.
sign
▪ After Elinor had signed her voluntary consent form, she and Adam were taken to her suite of rooms.
▪ I was too young to sign the consent form and when Malc arrived, he also was found to be too young.
▪ A patient who signs a consent form for a surgical operation can not later sue the surgeon for battery.
▪ You will be asked to sign a consent form agreeing to any of these treatments.
▪ Mrs Smith signed the consent form because Julie was under 16 years of age.
withhold
▪ An absolute prohibition against assignment is less popular than a qualified prohibition which requires a landlord not to withhold consent unreasonably.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mutual agreement/consent
▪ A contract can also be terminated by mutual agreement of the parties.
▪ Any changes to these dates will be made by mutual agreement.
▪ During the meal, as if by mutual consent, they talked of other things, but it was difficult.
▪ Paul permits temporary abstinence also but only by mutual agreement.
▪ The land claims commission has settled more than 11,000 cases by mutual agreement on compensation.
▪ The rules of the game are seen as fixed at any point in time by mutual agreement and changeable through mutual agreement.
▪ This mutual agreement is usually reached through the process of offer and acceptance.
the age of consent
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Before a woman can have an abortion, she needs to have written consent from two doctors.
▪ The city authorities have given their consent to leases on two buildings in the centre of Moscow.
▪ The young couple were married without their parents' consent.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A consent, however, is a movable threshold.
▪ All subjects gave informed consent for the study, which was approved by the local ethical committee.
▪ His answer depends on a distinction between tacit and explicit consent.
▪ I was too young to sign the consent form and when Malc arrived, he also was found to be too young.
▪ In extreme circumstances the customer or supplier may seek to use its strong position and extract personal benefits in return for giving its consent.
▪ In this case a consent application should be filed in writing and signed by all parties.
▪ The battery action protects personal integrity and guards against treatment without consent.
▪ Who's afraid of informed consent?
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
owner
▪ Whether in the event owners would have consented is quite another question.
▪ That may occur even though the owner has permitted or consented to the property being taken.
▪ The plaintiff relied on Lawrence to show that an appropriation could occur, even if the owner consented.
▪ The owner of property can consent to some one destroying or damaging that property.
▪ He contended that he believed that the owner would consent, had he known.
parent
▪ However, in the case of young children knowledge of the fact that the parent has consented may help.
▪ The parents of the friend consented to take her, but I think her appearance caused some consternation.
▪ In 1988 the foster parents applied to adopt D. The parents refused to consent to the adoption.
▪ Those parents who had consented to post mortem examinations were not told that their child's organs might be retained.
treatment
▪ Who must consent to essential medical treatment?
▪ In logic there can be no difference between an ability to consent to treatment and an ability to refuse treatment.
■ VERB
refuse
▪ However, where it is made after the breach, the customer is free to refuse to consent.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Consent Defendants who plead not guilty to rape, generally do so on the ground that the victim consented.
▪ But she can never entirely master a human soul - not unless you consent to it!
▪ Democratic audiences had to consent to this approach.
▪ He could not consent to the wounds.
▪ She was a homeless wanderer until tiny Delos alone of all places on earth consented to receive her.
▪ Such blasphemers by the Mosaic law were to be stoned to death and for his part he could freely consent to it.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consent

Consent \Con*sent"\, v. t. To grant; to allow; to assent to; to admit. [Obs.]

Interpreters . . . will not consent it to be a true story.
--Milton.

Consent

Consent \Con*sent"\, n. [Cf. OF. consent.]

  1. Agreement in opinion or sentiment; the being of one mind; accord.

    All with one consent began to make excuse.
    --Luke xiv. 18.

    They fell together all, as by consent.
    --Shak.

  2. Correspondence in parts, qualities, or operations; agreement; harmony; coherence.

    The melodious consent of the birds.
    --Holland.

    Such is the world's great harmony that springs From union, order, full consent of things.
    --Pope.

  3. Voluntary accordance with, or concurrence in, what is done or proposed by another; acquiescence; compliance; approval; permission.

    Thou wert possessed of David's throne By free consent of all.
    --Milton.

  4. (Law) Capable, deliberate, and voluntary assent or agreement to, or concurrence in, some act or purpose, implying physical and mental power and free action.

  5. (Physiol.) Sympathy. See Sympathy, 4.

    Syn: Assent; acquiescence; concurrence; agreement; approval; permission. See Assent.

    Age of consent (Law), an age, fixed by statute and varying in different jurisdictions, at which one is competent to give consent. Sexual intercourse with a female child under the age of consent is punishable as rape.

Consent

Consent \Con*sent"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Consented; p. pr. & vb. n. Consenting.] [F. consentir, fr. L. consentire, -sensum, to feel together, agree; con- + sentire to feel. See Sense.]

  1. To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.

    And Saul was consenting unto his death.
    --Acts. viii. 1.

    Flourishing many years before Wyclif, and much consenting with him in jugdment.
    --Fuller.

  2. To indicate or express a willingness; to yield to guidance, persuasion, or necessity; to give assent or approval; to comply.

    My poverty, but not my will, consents.
    --Shak.

    And whispering ``I will ne'er consent,'' -- consented.
    --Byron.

    Syn: To accede; yield; assent; comply; agree; allow; concede; permit; admit; concur; acquiesce.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
consent

early 13c., from Old French consentir (12c.) "agree, comply," from Latin consentire "feel together," from com- "with" (see com-) + sentire "to feel" (see sense (n.)). "Feeling together," hence, "agreeing, giving permission," apparently a sense evolution that took place in French before the word reached English. Related: Consented; consenting.

consent

c.1300, "approval," also "agreement in sentiment, harmony," from Old French consente, from consentir (see consent (v.)). Age of consent is attested from 1809.

Wiktionary
consent

n. Voluntary agreement or permission. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To express willingness, to give permission. 2 (context transitive medicine English) To cause to sign a consent form. 3 (context transitive obsolete English) To grant; to allow; to assent to. 4 To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.

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WordNet
consent

  1. n. permission to do something; "he indicated his consent"

  2. v. give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to; "I cannot accept your invitation"; "I go for this resolution" [syn: accept, go for] [ant: refuse]

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Wikipedia
Consent

In common speech, consent occurs when one person voluntarily agrees to the proposal or desires of another. The concept of consent has been operationalized in several major contexts, including in law, medicine and sexual relationships. Types of consent include implied consent, expressed consent, informed consent and unanimous consent. Consent as understood in legal contexts may differ from the everyday meaning. For example, a person under the Age of sexual consent may willingly engage in a sexual act; but that consent is not valid in a legal context.

Consent (BDSM)

Consent within BDSM is when a participant gives their permission for certain acts or types of relationships. It bears much in common with the concept of informed consent. It is an issue that attracts much attention within BDSM, as well from outside observers.

Legal consent is a separate and largely unrelated matter. The importance of consent is simultaneously a personal, ethical, and social issue. Acts undertaken with a lack of consent are considered abusive and shunned within the BDSM subculture.

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Consent (criminal law)

In criminal law, consent may be used as an excuse and prevent the defendant from incurring liability for what was done.

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Usage examples of "consent".

On the other hand, given the facts of a situation containing elements of duress, in other words of various pressures from family, friends and the community which a minor finds himself unable to resist, he has in effect been given a choice of evils by the defendant, and while his conduct may indicate his consent, the facts in the situation may persuade us otherwise.

By common consent of the entire profession they are among the ablest judges who ever sat on the Supreme Bench.

One of the reporters, a man named Downs from Aces magazine, was up here earlier, trying to get Braun to consent to an interview.

Yet when John Quincy asked if he might buy ice skates that winter, Adams consented without hesitation, explaining that skating should be considered a fine art.

At the presidential mansion, Adams finally consented to have a sentry posted at the door.

In a letter to Oliver Wolcott that he most likely never sent, Adams said angrily that were he to consent to the appointment of Hamilton to second rank under Washington, he would consider it the most reprehensible action of his life.

But John Quincy and young Charles Francis had also been done by Browere, and so Adams consented, even though Charles Francis, worried about his grandfather, warned how unpleasant, even dangerous, the experience could be.

My daughter is a treasure, and I offer her to you if you will consent to go for one year to Adrianople to reside with a relative of mine, who will teach you our religion, our language, and our manners.

His mother made him a luncheon to take with him, he dug some angleworms in the garden for bait, and the hired man consented to let him take a long pole that he used himself when he fished in the river.

Originally implying merely the cutting of a living animal in way of experiment, it has come by general consent to include all scientific investigations upon animals whatsoever, even when such researches or demonstrations involve no cutting operation of any kind.

The Enhancers, known for their spirituality and integrity, commanded respect throughout the galaxy, and Arion had consented to allow Eirene to stand as the requisite witness.

The five men had refused their consent and Arna Teln had cautiously withheld her vote, not fully understanding the circumstances.

Their object, as a sharp, wiry artizan bellowed into my ear, was to force the Government to consent to the election of a Commune, in order that the Chassepots may be more fairly distributed between the bourgeois and the ouvriers, and that Paris shall no longer render itself ridiculous by waiting within its walls until its provisions are exhausted and it is forced to capitulate.

Since Auris has not yet reached the age where her formal consent to this action would be required, the matter is settled.

After two doubtful battles, he consented to retire, and the Austrasian king relieved the distress of his camp with an immediate supply of corn and cattle.