assenter (as enter)

One who a ents. See a entor. a entient (a-sen's hient), a. and n. [ Locke . Without the king's a ent or knowledge, You wrought to be a legate. Shak ., Hen. VIII., iii. 2. No parish-busine in the place could stir, Without direction or a ent from her. Crabbe, The Parish Register. Another a embly, composed of representatives chosen 3. Accord; agreement; approval. by the people in all parts, gives free acce to the whole nation, and communicates all its wants, knowledge, projects, and wishes to government. J. Adams, Works, IV. 288. The Popular A embly and the Popular Court of Justice are in principle the same institution; they are gatherings of the freemen of the community for different public purposes. Maine , Early Law and Custom, p. 173. 3. Specifically-(a) [ cap.] The name given to the lower house of the legislature in several of the United States and in some of the British colonies. (b) A company of persons of both sexes met for dancing; a ball; especially, a ball the expenses of which are defrayed by the subscriptions of those who take part in it. Her girls. appeared perseveringly at the Winchester and Southampton a emblies; they penetrated to Cowes for the race-balls and regatta-gaieties there. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xxxix. 4. Milit.: (a) The second beating of the drum before a march, upon which the soldiers strike their tents. (b) A drum-beat or bugle-call to bring troops together at an appointed place. Lagache. thought it best to test the loyalty of the dragoons by sounding the a embly . Quarterly Rev., CLXIII. 100. 51. An a emblage or collection of inanimate objects. Virtue engages his a ent , But Pleasure wins his heart. Cowper , Human Frailty. Too many people read this ribaldry with a ent and ad Macaulay , Hist. Eng., xx. miration. 41. Opinion. Thou art oon of his a ent. Chaucer, Pardoner's Tale, 1. 296. Royal a ent, in England, the approbation given by the sovereign in Parliament to a bill which has pa ed both given in two ways: (a) In person, when the sovereign comes houses, after which it becomes law. This a ent may be to the House of Peers, the Commons are sent for, and the titles of all the bills which have pa ed are read. The royal a ent is declared in Norman-French by the clerk of the Parliament. (b) By letters patent under the great seal, signed by the sovereign, and notified in his or her absence. A money-bill, or bill of supply, pa ed by the House of Commons, is presented by the Speaker for the royal a ent. = Syn. A ent, Consent, Concurrence, Acquiescence, acceptance, adherence. A ent is primarily an act of the understanding; consent is distinctly the act of the will: as, I a ent to that proposition; I consent to his going. Baxter speaks of justifying faith as the a enting trust of the understanding and the consenting trust of the will. As sent is not yet altogether excluded from the field of the will, but tends to expre a feebler action of the will than it formerly did, or than consent does. Compare Luke xxiii, 24 (margin), "Pilate a ented that it should be as they required," with the formal consent in the royal a ent to a II. n. One who a ents; an a enter. North British Rev. a entingly (a-sen'ting-li), adv . In a manner expre ing expr a ent; by agreement. a entive (a-sentiv), a. [ Savage . [Rare.] ment , as sent i mentum , a ent, a en agreement. Sir T. Browne .