a. [f. L. consentāne-us agreeing, accordant (f. consent-īre to agree, accord) + -OUS.]
1. Agreeing, accordant; agreeable, suited.
1652. French, Yorksh. Spa, vi. 61. [A] Principle, of a consentaneous, suitable, and saline nature.
1681. Chetham, Angler’s Vade-m., vii. § 31. No element that is pure and without mixture, is consentaneous for nourishing.
b. Const. to (unto), with.
1625. Heylin, Microcosmos, 466. Which report is not consentaneous to truth.
1669. Boyle, Contn. New Exp., II. (1682), 135. ’Tis consentaneous to reason to judge, that [etc.].
1714. Derham, Astro-Theol., VII. vii. (1769), 187. Consentaneous to what I have taken notice of in Jupiter.
1802. Edin. Rev., I. 36. Consentaneous with the opinion of Sir William Jones.
1859. Mill, Liberty, iii. 105. Inducements … consentaneous to his own feelings.
1873. H. Rogers, Orig. Bible, iv. (ed. 3), 173. Statements of scripture with which it is so consentaneous.
2. Done by common consent, unanimous, concurrent, simultaneous.
1774. Fletcher, Fictitious Creed, x. Wks. 1795, III. 348. Let Reason and Revelation hold out to thee their consentaneous light.
1808–17. Foster, in Life & Corr. (1846), I. lxxiii. 407. A linked and consentaneous action.
1845. McCulloch, Taxation, II. x. (1852), 352. Increase in the consumption of coffee … with a very material consentaneous increase in the consumption of tea.
1874. Carpenter, Ment. Phys., I. ii. § 67 (1879), 69. The two pairs will not exhibit any consentaneous motions.
