Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
Division (I) Formation of Ideas
Section V. Results of Reasoning

488. Assent.

   NOUN:ASSENT, assentment [archaic]; acquiescence, admission; nod; accord, concord, concordance; agreement [See Agreement]; affirmance, affirmation; recognition, acknowledgment, avowal, recognizance [rare], confession, confession of faith.
  UNANIMITY, common consent, consensus, acclamation, chorus, vox populi [L.]; popular -, current- -belief, – opinion; public opinion; concurrence (of causes) [See Concurrence]; coöperation (voluntary) [See Coöperation].
  RATIFICATION, confirmation, corroboration, approval, acceptance, visa, visé [F.]; indorsement (record) [See Record].
  consent (compliance) [See Consent].
  AFFIRMANT, assentant [obs.], professor [esp. in relig.], confirmist, consenter, covenantor, subscriber, indorser or endorser; upholder (auxiliary) [See Auxiliary].
   VERB:ASSENT; give -, yield -, nodassent; acquiesce; agree [See Agreement]; receive, accept, accede, accord, concur, lend oneself to, consent, coincide, reciprocate, go with; be at one with &c. adj.; go along with, chime in with, strike in with, close with; echo, enter into one’s views, agree in opinion; vote for, give one’s voice for; recognize; subscribe -, conform -, defer- to; say -yes, – ditto, – amen, – aye- to.
  go -, float -, swim- with the stream; float with the current; get on the band wagon [slang]; be in the fashion, join in the chorus; be in every mouth.
  arrive at -, come to- -an understanding, – terms, – an agreement.
  ACKNOWLEDGE, own, admit, allow, avow, confess; concede (yield) [See Consent]; come round to; abide by; permit [See Permission].
  CONFIRM, affirm; ratify, approve, indorse, visa, visé [F.], countersign; corroborate [See Evidence].
   ADJECTIVE:ASSENTING &c. v.; of one -accord, – mind; of the same mind, affirmant, assentaneous [rare], assentant [obs.], at one with, agreed, acquiescent, content; willing [See Willingness].
  UNCONTRADICTED, unchallenged, unquestioned, uncontroverted.
  carried -, agreed- –nem. con. [L.] &c. adv.; unanimous; agreed on all hands, carried by acclamation.
  affirmative [See Affirmation].
   ADVERB:YES, yea, aye or ay, true; good; well; how true, very -well, – true; well and good; granted; even so, just so; to be sure, as you say, sure, surely, assuredly, “thou hast said”; truly, exactly, precisely, that’s just it, indeed, certainly, certes [archaic], ex concesso [L.], of course, unquestionably, no doubt, doubtless.
  BE IT SO; so be it, so let it be; so mote it be, with all one’s heart; amen; willingly [See Willingness].
  AFFIRMATIVELY, in the affirmative.
  UNANIMOUSLY, unâ voce [L.], by common consent, in chorus, to a man; with one -consent, – voice, – accord; nem. con. [L.]; nemine contradicente [L.], nemine dissentiente [L.], without a dissentient voice; as one man, one and all, on all hands.
   QUOTATIONS:

1. Avec plaisir.
2. Chi tace accousente.
3. The public mind is the creation of the Master-Writers.—Disraeli