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† aˈssentant, ppl. a. and n. Obs.
[a. OF. a(s)sentant, pr. pple. of a(s)senter: see assent v. and -ant. Now replaced by assentient.]
A. adj. Assenting, consenting; agreeing.
[a1400Relig. Pieces fr. Thornt. MS. 89 Noghte assent⁓and to syne.] c1400Test. Love i. (1560) 277/1, I was drawe to bee assentaunt. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. cxcv. 171 All tho that were assentant to the same quarel.
B. n. [the adj. used absol.] One who assents or consents to; an abettor, partisan.
1562Leigh Armorie (1597) 113 b, When God the father had expulsed the prince of pride, with his assentantes, from heauen. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman D' Alf. ii. 333 The Accessary was to have as much as the Principall; the Assentant as the Assaylant. |