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▪ I. concent, n.|kənˈsɛnt|
Also 6–7 consent.
[ad. L. concent-us a singing together, harmony (lit. and fig.), f. con-cinĕre to sing or sound together, harmonize, f. con- + canĕre (cant-us) to sing. Cf. It., Sp. concento (Florio and Minsheu).
From the first adoption of this word, on to 1700, it was very frequently confused in spelling with the identically-sounded consent, and there are passages in which the identity of the word is disputed, esp. in sense 2. About 1620 A. Hume, Orthogr. Briton Tongue (1865) 19, gave the caution ‘This difference of c and s is the more attentivelie to be marked, for that wordes of one sound and diverse signification are many tymes distinguished be these symboles; as..concent in musik, and consent of myndes.’]
1. Harmony (of sounds); accord or concord of several voices or parts; playing or singing together in harmony. Also (with a and pl.), A concord, a harmony. ? Obs.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. i. (Arb.) 79 The harmonicall concents of the artificial Musicke. 1609Douland Ornith. Microl. iii. 1 Accent hath great affinity with Concent, for they be brothers. 1631R. Byfield Doctr. Sabb. 163 Singing in Concents. 1697Potter Antiq. Greece iii. ix. (1715) 33 The Lacedaemonians..remarkable for beginning their Engagements with a Concent of Flutes.
(β) (erroneously) spelt consent.
1585Foxe Serm. 2 Cor. v. 20 The consent of Musick may teach us, what an amiable thing to nature it is, to tune in one agreement of concord. 1601Holland Pliny I. 76 Resounding again with the melodious consent of the birds. 1694W. Holder Harmony Introd., This is proper in Symphony, i.e. Consent of more Voices in different Tones.
2. transf. and fig. Concord, harmony; accord.
1588H. Broughton (title), A Concent of Scripture. 1593Drayton Eclog. vii. 177 That concent we cleerely find, Which doth things together draw. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, i. ii. 181 For Gouernment, though high, and low, and lower, Put into parts, doth keepe in one consent, Congreeing in a full and natural close, Like Musicke. 1603Drayton Bar. Wars iii. lix, So their affections, set in keys alike, In true concent meet, as their humours strike. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. iii. 222 That sweet harmony and concent which passeth all understanding. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 483 Herein you may heare the concent of a Consort of Authors. 1830Blackw. Mag. XXVIII. 527 All Falsehood is dissonant—and verity is concent. 1878S. Cox Salv. Mundi vii. (ed. 3) 158 Science and Scripture are one, and join in pure concent.
▪ II. † conˈcent, v. Obs. rare.
[f. the n.]
1. trans. To harmonize or make to accord.
1596Spenser F.Q. iv. ii. 2 Such musicke is wise words, with time concented, To moderate stiffe mindes.
2. intr. To meet harmoniously.
1647Sprigge Anglia Rediv. iii. ii. (1854) 141, I have rarely seen such heights and depths concent in one man.
▪ III. concent
obs. f. consent. |