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单词 consensual
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consensualadj.

/kənˈsɛnsjuːəl//kənˈsɛnʃuːəl/
Etymology: < Latin consensus (see consensus n.) + -al suffix1. In modern French consensuel.
1. Relating to or involving consent. consensual contract (in Roman Law): a contract which requires only consent of the parties to render it obligatory: so consensual obligation. consensual reference: (Sociology and Psychology) a statement (about oneself) with an agreed transparent reference.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > agreement > consent > [adjective]
consensual1754
1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. II. iii. iii. 290 Contracts consensual, i.e. which might, by the Roman law, be perfected by sole consent.
1818 H. T. Colebrooke Treat. Obligations & Contracts 14.
1880 J. Muirhead in tr. Gaius Institutes iii. 208 (note) The verbal and literal contracts are often spoken of by the civilians as formal contracts, in contradistinction to the real and consensual ones, which they call material.
1880 J. Muirhead Inst. of Gaius & Rules of Ulpian Digest 478 Consensual obligations were so called because a common understanding was sufficient to create them without any formality.
1881 E. Hatch Bampton Lect. vi. 145 The consensual jurisdiction to which the members of Christian societies submitted themselves.
1948 M. Sherif Outl. Social Psychol. xviii. 621 This ordering of responses held whether a respondent made as many as nineteen consensual references or as few as one.
2. Physiology. Happening as if by consent, caused by sympathetic action: said of movements which take place through the action of the nervous system independently of the will, and spec. of movements caused by reflex action of the sensory nerve-centres on being stimulated through the organs of sense.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > action of nervous system > [adjective] > reflex action
consensual1800
reflex1833
reflexive1845
reflectorial1868
reflexogenous1899
1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 275 An increased action or local irritation, either idiopathic or consensual.
1839 Baly tr. Müller Elem. Physiol. II. 930 [It] has a tendency to consensual action with its fellow nerve of the opposite side.
1864 H. Spencer Illustr. Progress 319 Doubtless we may pass gradually from the purely reflex, through the consensual, to the voluntary.
1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. ii. 57 The Sensori-motor or consensual actions in Man.

Derivatives

conˈsensually adv. in a consensual manner, by consent.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > agreement > consent > [adverb]
consentingly1552
consentiently1659
consentfully1856
consensually1885
1885 Eng. Mech. 19 June 345 That the Budget..may be criticised, attacked, and even consensually or compulsorily amended.
1886 Sat. Rev. 9 Jan. 36 There are no means..whereby the powers of an Irish Parliament could be consensually so limited.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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