assent

i. [In Fr. a entir; Sp. asentir; Port, a entar; Ital. a entire; Lat, a entio =to a ent: ad to, and sentio = to discern by the senses, to feel.] 1. To admit a statement to be true. "And the Jews also a ented, saying that these things were so."- Acts xxiv. 9. 2. To consent to a proposal affecting one's interests. "The prince a ented to all that was suggested by her husband-Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. vil *3. To yield to the seductive influence of any vice. "Loke wel. that ye unto no vice a ent." Chaucer: C. Г., 13,502. For the difference between a ent and concont, see ASSENT, s.