APPOINTED

appointive, appointed

(adjective) subject to appointment

appointed

(adjective) selected for a job; “the one appointed for guard duty”

appointed

(adjective) provided with furnishing and accessories (especially of a tasteful kind); “a house that is beautifully appointed”

appointed, decreed, ordained, prescribed

(adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command; “at the time appointed (or the appointed time)”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

appointed (not comparable)

(of a politician or a title) Subject to appointment, as opposed to an election.

Hyponyms

• state-appointed

Verb

appointed

simple past tense and past participle of appoint.

Source: Wiktionary


APPOINT

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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