1. To comply with or to agree to something; an act or gesture of agreement or permission; to concur, to accept, or to approve: All of the students and faculty members of the school assented to getting out of classes early so they could get home before the storm arrived.

The majority of people in the audience assented with the politician's views about not increasing the taxes for food products.

2. Etymology: from Old French assentir, assenter; from Latin assentari; from as-, "to"; a variant of ad-, before s + sentire, "to feel, to think".