Word of the Day: ASSENTANEOUS

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin assentaneus (from assentiri (to assent)) + -ous

EXAMPLE
“… The bowels of Sir Thomas waxed tenderer and tenderer; and he opened his lips in this fashion :
“Stripling! I would now communicate unto thee, on finding thee docile and assentaneous, the instruction thou needest on the signification of the words natural cause, if thy duty toward thy neighbour had been first instilled into thee. …”

From: Works Of Walter Savage Landor
By Walter Savage Landor, 1846
“Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare“, 1834