adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.]
1. Agreeably, accordantly to; harmoniously with; consistently, fittingly.
1660. trans. Amyraldus’ Treat. Relig., III. v. 389. It was very consentaneously done.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 63. That we may first speak agreeably to his own mind … and then consentaneously with our Selves.
1681. H. More, Exp. Dan., vi. 208. Consentaneously to what follows. Ibid. (1685), Paralip. Prophet., 90. Consentaneously to this he cites [etc.].
2. With mutual consent and accord; with one consent; concurrently, simultaneously.
1575. Churchyard, Chippes (1817), 88. A treaty, which stipulated, that both the French, and English, should consentaneously retire from Scotland.
1871. M. Collins, Mrq. & Merch., II. ii. 43. The young ladies … were unanimously and consentaneously shocked by seeing him talk familiarly to a … governess.
1874. Carpenter, Ment. Phys., I. ii. § 4 (1879), 118. The different Ganglionic centres … so much more frequently act consentaneously than separately.
b. Concurrently, simultaneously with.
1836. Fraser’s Mag., XIV. 707. The best words are those which rise consentaneously with the idea.
1875. H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 382. Iron and other tonics … may be given consentaneously with the arsenic.
