consentient

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Now, my method on the contrary is to refer all such questions to “the consentient testimony of the most ancient authorities.”

From The Revision Revised by Burgon, John William

This principle is often illustrated in the independent yet consentient testimony of the whole body of the Cursives and later Uncials61.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William

Her husband being consentient to this life-long separation, her lot might be fairly happy.

From The Golden Calf by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

Have I not persistently enquired for the verdict—so far as it has been obtainable—of consentient Antiquity?

From The Revision Revised by Burgon, John William

The proper proof of the statement is the consentient voice of all the copies,—except about nineteen of loose character:—we know their vagaries but too well, and decline to let them impose upon us.

From The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Miller, Edward