a. and sb. [ad. L. acquiēscent-em, pr. pple. of acquiēsc-ĕre; see ACQUIESCE, and -NT.]
A. adj. Acquiescing; disposed to acquiesce, quietly agree, or assent.
[1697. Acquiescent-ly occurs: see next.]
1753. Richardson, Grandison, xxiii. (1781), III. 236. I really think his Sisters are too acquiescent.
1863. Kinglake, Crimea (1876), I. ii. 38. The acquiescent policy of 1829 would again be followed.
B. sb. One who acquiesces, who silently assents or submits.
1810. Coleridge, Friend (ed. 3), II. 117. Such fear-ridden and thence angry believers, or rather acquiescents, would do well to re-peruse the book of Job.
