noun

assensus

gen. assensūs · gender masculine · decl. 4th

(), , assentior

an agreement; assent; approval

an agreement, assent, approval, approbation.

joyful; loud assent ••

In gen.: adsensu omnium dicere, Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 4: volgi adsensu et populari approbatione, id. Brut. 49, 185: omnium adsensu, Liv. 5, 9; 8, 5; 8, 4 fin.; cf. id. 3, 72: adsensu senatūs, Plin. Pan. 71: adsensum consequi agendo, id. Ep. 7, 6, 13; so Tac. A. 14, 12; 15, 22; Suet. Aug. 68; id. Tib. 45 et saep.—In the plur.: dicta Jovis pars voce probant; alii partes assensibus implent, Ov. M. 1, 245; 8, 604: hinc ingentes exciri adsensus, Tac. Or. 10 fin.—Also joyful, loud assent: exposuit cum ingenti adsensu, Liv. 27, 51.—

especially

an assent to the reality of sensible appearances •

In philos. lang., like assensio, an assent to the reality of sensible appearances: concedam illum ipsum sapientem ... retenturum adsensum, nec umquam ulli viso adsensurum, nisi, etc., Cic. Ac. 2, 18, 57: tollendus adsensus est, id. ib. 2, 18, 59; 2, 18, 33 fin.; id. Fin. 3, 9, 31 al.—

an echo poetic •

Poet., an echo: Et vox adsensu nemorum ingeminata remugit, Verg. G. 3, 45: Aereaque adsensu conspirant cornua rauco, id. A. 7, 615; Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 615.

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