ppl. a. and sb. 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 assentand 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. sb. [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, trans. Aleman’s Guzman D’Alf., II. 333. The Accessary was to have as much as the Principall; the Assentant as the Assaylant.
