Meaning of assentatory | Babel Free

Definitions

Assenting, sometimes especially to an excessive (flattering, obsequious) extent.

formal, uncommon

Examples

“aſſentatory oaths are in caſes of trial by twelve or twenty four appearing as witneſſes, […]”

“[…] and the civil magistrates not only call⟳ you before them to aver the truth therein, but also giving you a good example, cometh before you out of tenderness to their civil trust⟳ and duty, to maintain⟳ the privileges of parliament; to give⟳ a testimony assentatory to their civil rights and privileges; […]”

“Selden [says] 'All oaths are either promissory or assentatory (assertatory?); the first being that which binds to a future performance of trust⟳; the second that which is taken for the discovery of a past or present⟳ truth.”

“Tacitus and Pliny were without doubt⟳ fine orators, even if the former explores the idea of oratory's decline⟳ in his Dialogue on Orators and our only example of oratory to survive⟳ intact, the latter's Panegyric on Trajan (A.D. 98)[,] strikes moderns as turgid and assentatory.”

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