Convented vs Consented - What's the difference?
convented | consented |
(convent)
(obsolete) Brought together, convened.
*, II.3.3:
(consent)
To express willingness, to give permission.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
(medicine) To cause to sign a consent form.
*
(obsolete) To grant; to allow; to assent to.
* (rfdate) Milton
To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
* (rfdate) Bible, Acts viii. 1
* (rfdate) Fuller
Voluntary agreement or permission.
*, II.6:
As verbs the difference between convented and consented
is that convented is (convent) while consented is (consent).As an adjective convented
is (obsolete) brought together, convened.convented
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Socrates in a fair, seeing so many things bought and sold, such a multitude of people convented to that purpose, exclaimed forthwith, “O ye gods, what a sight of things do not I want!”
consented
English
Verb
(head)consent
English
(wikipedia consent)Verb
(en verb)- ''I've consented to have the procedure performed.
- My poverty, but not my will, consents .
- Interpreters will not consent it to be a true story.
- And Saul was consenting unto his death.
- Flourishing many years before Wyclif, and much consenting with him in jugdment.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeSynonyms
* (intransitive) acquiesce, agree, approve, assent, concur,Antonyms
* (intransitive) disagree, , opposeDerived terms
* consentingNoun
(en noun)- All men know by experience, there be some parts of our bodies which often without any consent of ours doe stirre, stand, and lye down againe.