assensio

as-sensĭo ( ads- ), ōnis, f. [assentior], an assent, agreement, approbation, applause (esp. in rhetor. and philos. lang.;

beyond this sphere assensus is more usu.): orationis genus exile nec satis populari adsensioni accommodatum,

Cic. Brut. 30, 114; id. Inv. 1, 31, 51:

crebrae adsensiones, multae admirationes,

id. ib. 84, 290; id. Mil. 5:

plurium,

Sen. Ep. 7:

simulata,

Quint. 6, 3, 73; so Plin. Ep. 3, 4, 4; 4, 12, 6 al.—In philos. lang., an assent to the reality of sensible appearances: nunc de adsensione atque adprobatione, quam Graeci sunkatathesin vocant, pauca dicemus, Cic. Ac. 2, 12, 37:

non sunt neque adsensiones neque actiones in nostrā potestate,

id. Fat. 17 (v. the context, and id. ib. 19).