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Hypertext Webster Gateway: "consensual"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Consensual \Con*sen"su*al\, a. [See {Consent}, v. i., and cf. {Sensual}.] 1. (Law) Existing, or made, by the mutual
consent of two or more parties.
2. (Physiol.) Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition; as, consensual
motions.
{Consensual contract} (Law), a contract formed merely by consent, as a marriage contract.
From WordNet (r) 1.6 (wn)
consensual adj : (law) existing by consent; "a consensual contract"
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Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mutual"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mutual \Mu"tu*al\, a. [F. mutuel, L. mutuus, orig., exchanged, borrowed, lent; akin to mutare to change. See {Mutable}.] 1.
Reciprocally acting or related; reciprocally receiving and giving; reciprocally given and received; reciprocal; interchanged; as,
a mutual love, advantage, assistance, aversion, etc.
Conspiracy and mutual promise. --Sir T. More.
Happy in our mutual help, And mutual love. --Milton.
A certain shyness on such subjects, which was mutual between the sisters. --G. Eliot.
2. Possessed, experienced, or done by two or more persons or things at the same time; common; joint; as, mutual
happiness; a mutual effort. --Burke.
A vast accession of misery and woe from the mutual weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth. --Bentley.
Note: This use of mutual as synonymous with common is inconsistent with the idea of interchange, or reciprocal relation,
which properly belongs to it; but the word has been so used by many writers of high authority. The present tendency is
toward a careful discrimination.
Mutual, as Johnson will tell us, means something reciprocal, a giving and taking. How could people have mutual ancestors?
--P. Harrison.
Mutual insurance, agreement among a number of persons to insure each other against loss, as by fire, death, or accident.
Mutual insurance company, one which does a business of insurance on the mutual principle, the policy holders sharing losses
and profits pro rata.
Syn: Reciprocal; interchanged; common.
From WordNet (r) 1.6 (wn)
mutual adj 1: common to or shared by two or more parties; "a common friend"; "the mutual interests of management and
labor" [syn: {common}] 2: experienced or expressed by each toward the other; "mutual trust"; "a mutual defense treaty"; "mutual consent"
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