† aˈssentant, ppl. a. and n. Obs.
[a. OF. a(s)sentant, pr. pple. of a(s)senter: see assent v. and -ant. Now replaced by assentient.]
A. adj. Assenting, consenting; agreeing.
| [a 1400 Relig. Pieces fr. Thornt. MS. 89 Noghte assent⁓and to syne.] c 1400 Test. Love i. (1560) 277/1, I was drawe to bee assentaunt. 1480 Caxton Chron. Eng. cxcv. 171 All tho that were assentant to the same quarel. |
B. n. [the adj. used absol.] One who assents or consents to; an abettor, partisan.
| 1562 Leigh Armorie (1597) 113 b, When God the father had expulsed the prince of pride, with his assentantes, from heauen. 1622 Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman D' Alf. ii. 333 The Accessary was to have as much as the Principall; the Assentant as the Assaylant. |