appoint
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English apointen, borrowed from Old French apointier (“to prepare, arrange, lean, place”) (French appointer (“to give a salary, refer a cause”)), from Late Latin appunctō (“to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement”); Latin ad + punctum (“a point”). See point.
Inflected forms:
form: appoints
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: appointing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: appointed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: appointed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting itself) by authority or agreement.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His Royal Highness called to pay his respects to her Majesty; but, from the unexpected nature of his visit, her Majesty was not in a state then to receive him; but soon after sent a letter to Prince Leopold, to appoint one o'clock this day for an interview.
We have to wait until they're ready to receive us, and make sure we turn up at the appointed time.
gloss: To name (someone to a post or role).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Aaron and his shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service.
Neal Kwatra, appointed by Cuomo to be the state Democratic Party's chief campaign strategist, was identified by two key Democratic insiders[...]
gloss: To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It was a handsome old stucco hall, very elegantly appointed, for Winter was a bachelor and prided himself on his style; but the place was beset by collieries.
Their two-room apartment, which is neither fashionably appointed nor in a fashionable neighborhood
The hotel is beautifully designed and beautifully appointed in a classic, modern style that manages to be both serene and luxurious at the same time.
gloss: To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: after mature Deliberation, he appointed them a Ship of seventy Tons,
gloss: To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If the donee of a power appoint the fund to one of the objects of the power, under an understanding that the latter is to lend the fund to tho former, although on good security, the appointment is bad.
gloss: To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
Thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint.
gloss: To resolve; to determine; to ordain.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel.
The day being very stormy, we were obliged to keep at home; which I much regretted, as it abridged my opportunity of seeing the Jewish synagogues, as we had appointed to do to-day.
He had preached twice on the Lord's day, he preached also on Monday, and had appointed to do the same on Tuesday, but died that morning.
On the following morning Lord Ballindine[,] as he had appointed to do, drove over to Dunmore, to settle with Martin about the money, and, if necessary, to go with him to the attorney's office in Tuam.
Synonyms: accredit
allot
assign
choose
command
decide
decree
delegate
designate
direct
elect
enjoin
employ
equip
furnish
install
nominate
ordain
settle
tap
Antonyms: decline
disallow
dismiss
fire
ignore
neglect
refuse
reject
revoke
terminate
unfurnish
Related words: point
Derived words: appointable
appointee
appointer
appointive
appointment
appointor
foreappoint
preappoint
reappoint
self-appoint
unappoint
well-appointed
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