0 past simple and past participle of consent
1 to agree to do something, or to allow someone to do something:
[ + to infinitive ] Very reluctantly, I've consented to lend her my car.
My aunt never married because her father wouldn't consent to her marriage.
A lower proportion of cardiologists and urban physicians consented to participate.
Subjects consented to take part in a semistructured interview lasting around 30-45 minutes.
Of the total 218 nursing employees, 168 (78%) employees consented to participate.
Ninety-one hip fracture patients were screened: sixty were felt to be suitable for the study and 39 consented to inclusion in the trial.
The students whose parents consented were selected for inclusion in the study.
It appears whenever a community chooses its representatives in the manner to which it has previously consented and whenever these representatives vote.
A 20 ml blood sample was taken from all patients who consented, at baseline and again at times of local and distant disease recurrence.
Everyone consented to being recorded, and conversations were later transcribed.