appointment vs consensus

appointment

noun
  • Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. 

  • An honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college. 

  • An arrangement between people to meet; an engagement. 

  • Equipment, furniture. 

  • The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed 

  • Decree; direction; established order or constitution. 

  • The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court. 

  • The act of appointing a person to hold an office or to have a position of trust 

  • The exercise of the power of designating (under a power of appointment) a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. 

consensus

noun
  • General agreement among the members of a given group or community, each of which exercises some discretion in decision-making and follow-up action. 

  • A process of decision-making that seeks widespread agreement among group members. 

  • Average projected value. 

  • An agreement on some data value that is needed during computation. 

verb
  • To seek consensus; to hold discussions with the aim of reaching mutual agreement. 

How often have the words appointment and consensus occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )