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Unanim(o)us, adj. Also: aneanimos. [17th c. Eng. unanimous (1624), f. as Unanime adj.] = Unanime adj. —predic. a1650 Row 262.
And what though all these twenty [sc. clerics] had been (as they were not) unanimous in everie thing, it might not be inferred hence that all the many hundred ministers in Scotland were for that of one judgment —attrib. 1657 S. Ronaldshay 19.
In regard of the forme ust, free and unanimous call, publict intimatne. of edict [etc.] 1686 Records of Fleshers' Incorp. Stirling in Stirling Archæol. Soc. (1921) 32.
With aneanimos vos of the rest of the brithren 1697 Dundee B. Laws 561.
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