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Definitions for: Appoint
[v] furnish; "a beautifully appointed house"
[v] charge with a task or function; "appoint someone president"; "nominate a committee"
[v] assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to; "He was appointed deputy manager"; "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance"
Webster (1913) Definition: Ap*point" ([a^]p*point"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Appointed; p. pr. & vb. n. Appointing.] [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) 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" ([a^]p*point"), v. i.
To ordain; to determine; to arrange.
For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel
of Ahithophel. --2 Sam. xvii.
14.
Synonyms: charge, constitute, name, nominate
See Also: accredit, assign, authorise, authorize, co-opt, create, delegate, depute, deputise, deputize, designate, dub, empower, equip, establish, fit, fit out, found, institute, knight, make, outfit, pack, plant
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