• IPA: /əˈsɛnt/

assent (assents, present participle assenting; past and past participle assented)

1. (intransitive) To agree; to give approval.
   • 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 7, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗:

   • 2012, Spectral Mortuary, Lapidated

     To assent to the words
     Of medieval law
     To pay a corporal price
     To death, by lapidation

2. (intransitive) To admit a thing as true.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Acts 24:9 ↗:

     And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.

• (give approval) consent; See also Thesaurus:assent
• (admit a thing as true) affirm, allow, astipulate, aver, soothe, stipulate

• French: assentir
• Italian: assentire
• Portuguese: assentir
• Russian: одобря́ть
• Spanish: asentir, consentir

assent

1. agreement; act of agreeing

   I will give this act my assent.

• approval, consent, sanction; See also Thesaurus:approval

• assentor

• French: assentiment
• Italian: assenso
• Portuguese: assentimento, sanção
• Russian: согла́сие
• Spanish: asentimiento