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
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
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