APPOINT

appoint

(verb) furnish; “a beautifully appointed house”

appoint, name, nominate, constitute

(verb) create and charge with a task or function; “nominate a committee”

appoint, charge

(verb) assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to; “He was appointed deputy manager”; “She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

appoint (third-person singular simple present appoints, present participle appointing, simple past and past participle appointed)

(transitive) To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting itself) by authority or agreement.

(transitive) To name (someone to a post or role).

(transitive) To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out.

(transitive) To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).

(transitive, legal) To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).

(obsolete, transitive) To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.

(obsolete, intransitive) To resolve; to determine; to ordain.

Anagrams

• antipop, apoptin

Source: Wiktionary

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Ap*point", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Appointed; p. pr. & vb. n. Appointing.] Etym: [OE. appointen, apointen, OF. apointier to prepare, arrange, lean, place, F. appointer to give a salary, refer a cause, fr. LL. appunctare to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement; L. ad + punctum a point. See Point.]

1. To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out. When he appointed the foundations of the earth. Prov. viii. 29.

2. To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of. Thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint. 2 Sam. xv. 15. He hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness. Acts xvii. 31. Say that the emperor request a parley . . . and appoint the meeting. Shak.

3. To assign, designate, or set apart by authority. Aaron and his shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service. Num. iv. 19. These were cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. Josh. xx. 9.

4. To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out. The English, being well appointed, did so entertain them that their ships departed terribly torn. Hayward.

5. To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign. [Obs.] Appoint not heavenly disposition. Milton.

6. (Law)

Definition: To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed. Burrill. Kent. To appoint one's self, to resolve. [Obs.] Crowley.

Ap*point", v. i.

Definition: To ordain; to determine; to arrange. For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithoph2 Sam. xvii. 14.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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