0 present 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.
The act of two or more people consenting on the same thing about giving or doing something being called a pact.
Blood samples were obtained for genetic diagnosis from all consenting participants.
One year after the first contact, all consenting patients received a detailed, fourteen-item followup questionnaire (7).
I have divided the women who appear in the acts into three categories : active women, passive women and consenting wives.
Consenting women were randomly allocated to either preventive intervention or routine primary care.
If in her mind she was not consenting, then she was not consenting, regardless of how the reasonable person would interpret her behavior.
Over the next eight-day period many of the employer groups had agreed to the new monopolisation without consenting to the pay increase.
A daily rectal swab was taken from all consenting individuals of any age from all these households during one week.
