unanimous, a.
(juːˈnænɪməs)
[f. L. ūnanim-is, -us: see unanime a.]
1. Of persons: Of one mind or opinion; agreed.
| 1624 Donne Serm. Wks. 1839 IV. 585 Be the fathers as clear, and as unanimous as they will in it. 1637 R. Humfrey tr. St. Ambrose i. 70 Let not thine unanimous friend nor thy brother know what thou dost. 1697 Addison Ess. Georgics ¶1 All are Unanimous in giving him the Precedence to Hesiod in his Georgics. 1744 Harris Three Treat. Wks. (1841) 43 You cannot forget (for we were both unanimous) the contempt in which we held those superficial censurers. 1783 W. Thomson Watson's Philip III, vi. 475 The council was unanimous that he ought immediately to be recalled. 1849 Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 146 The English Roman Catholics..were almost unanimous in favour of the Act of Settlement. 1873 Hamerton Intell. Life x. v. 388 Physicians are unanimous in their preference of early to late work. |
2. Of beliefs, statements, actions, etc.: Exhibiting general agreement or consent.
| 1675 tr. Camden's Hist. Eliz. iii. 402 The universall and unanimous Belief of all men carried it for certain Truth, that a most invincible Armada was rigged and prepared in Spain against England. 1691 Wood Ath. Oxon II. 685 Dr. Atkins was nominated by the unanimous Votes of the said Presbytery. a 1727 Newton Chronol. Amended vi. (1728) 352 By the unanimous consent of all Chronologers. 1772 Burke Corr. (1844) I. 363 Without their own vigorous and unanimous efforts in their own cause, our endeavours will be of no service. 1856 Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vii. 22 The nation seemed to unite in an unanimous declaration of freedom. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 3 The genuineness of the Laws is sufficiently proved..by the unanimous voice of later antiquity. |