To: Bearcatbob who wrote (34687 ) 2/20/1999 2:50:00 PM From: lorrie coey Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 67261
Guess again...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" You just don't want to get it... 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" Packinwood couldn't keep his slimey tongue in his own mouth...