consense

present singular third person consenses · participle present consensing · participle past consensed · past consensed

1. To agree; to form by consensus.

   It’s overblown, it isn’t quite as consensus-oriented management as you might think—but did they consense on this over twenty years?

   1999, Mary Walton, Car http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=3xmDzzNiwiUC&pg=PA45&lpg=PA45&sig=hxc7iKJixjH3VehPwG1jsRB3JL8

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   We consense, we affirm and re-affirm the Free Community of Spirit, we acknowledge a spokesman to voice our thinking when such voicings seem called for.

   1970, Harry Hay, “Western Homophile Conference Keynote Address,” in Speaking for Our Lives, Robert B Ridinger ed. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=PatzOnRJCf4C&pg=PA144&lpg=PA144&sig=CFk9r9_qCI7TL5Gysdtc6bDw1SE, 2003

   2003, Milan Daniel, “Algebraic Structures Related to the Consensus Operator for Combining of Beliefs,” in Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning With Uncertainty, Thomas D. Nielsen and Nevin L Zhang edd. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=lOfqrvKD42oC&pg=PA339&lpg=PA339&sig=KXvU9mUgD13v7aZSyIUhEB17N4A Consensus of two opinions is Bayesian iff at least one of the opinions consensed (i.e. combined by the consensus operator) is Bayesian.

plural consenses

1. agreement

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   1995, Max Pensky, “Universalism and the situated critic,” in The Cambridge Companion to Habermas, Stephen K White ed. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=EfP7-iYd120C&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&sig=Qiq-5jwSChtKCR2Qz46lReOjk9g In this way the rational constitution of a democratic state is the embodiment of a preestablished, decontextualized social contract, an expectation on which all particular consenses and compromises must be based: …

   1999, M. Banzi et al., “An Experience in Configuration Management in SODALIA,” in System Configuration Management, Jacky Estublier ed. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=9N4t8Tq6jzQC&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85&sig=jY0OLldJtQl3G_R6hJisDOfAjWE Special thanks to Michele Marini for his revision and his consense to the effort necessary in the writing of the paper.

   2001, Azizah Y al-Hibri, “Standing at the Precipice,” in Religion in American Public Life, Azizah Y al-Hibri et al. edd. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=ZBgr7CSZD1wC&sig=vAchrx2BflWr03qE8wt0lphAlcI If one raises the bar too high—seeking, say, civil harmony and unity rather than the possibility of working and shifting consenses and a comingling of pluralities and commonalities—religious differences are always going to be problematic at best.