consented

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of consent.

   The patient consented to the procedure after reviewing the risks.

   Having consented to the terms, she signed the agreement.

   Note

   One spelling serves as both past tense and past participle: she consented; she has consented. In ordinary use the verb is intransitive, so what is agreed to follows with to, as in consented to the procedure or consented to wait. A newer transitive use means getting someone to sign a consent form, which allows a passive such as the patient was consented. Older texts may also show a direct object, in the obsolete sense of 'granted' or 'allowed'.

2. 2
   adjective

   Agreed to; having received the consent of the people concerned.

   The consented procedure proceeded exactly as the medical team had planned.

   Any action beyond the consented terms required fresh approval.

   Similaragreed, approved, authorized

   Oppositeunconsented

   Note

   An adjective that does not grade: terms are consented or they are not, never more consented. Its opposite is unconsented, for what went ahead without agreement. It stands before a noun, as in the consented procedure or the consented terms. In that position it does without the to that the verb form normally needs, which would give a procedure consented to.

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