consentient
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The conclusions thus recommended to us by the consentient primitive traditions of so many races, have lately received most important and unexpected confirmation from the results of linguistic research.
Their authority for this reading is the consentient testimony of the four oldest MSS. which contain S. Luke ii.
From The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark by Burgon, John William
Whatsoever in nature is moved naturally, the same is set in motion both by its own forces and by the consentient compact of other bodies.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William
On every side we find, as we try to show, in all ages, climates, races, and stages of civilisation, consentient testimony to a set of extraordinary phenomena.
From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew
It will be admitted that the consentient testimony of persons in every stage of belief and prejudice, of ignorance and learning, cannot agree, as it does agree, by virtue of some "fluctuation of public opinion".
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew
