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Definition of Appoint
1. Verb. Create and charge with a task or function. "Nominate a committee"
Generic synonyms: Constitute, Establish, Found, Institute, Plant
Specialized synonyms: Pack, Co-opt
Derivative terms: Appointee, Appointee, Appointive, Appointive, Naming, Nomination, Nominative
2. Verb. Assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to. "They appoint him to write the letter"; "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance"
Specialized synonyms: Assign, Delegate, Depute, Designate, Depute, Deputise, Deputize, Make, Name, Nominate, Authorise, Authorize, Empower, Accredit, Create
Derivative terms: Appointee, Appointee, Appointive, Appointive, Charge, Charge, Charge, Charge
3. Verb. Furnish. "A beautifully appointed house"
Definition of Appoint
1. v. t. To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
2. v. i. To ordain; to determine; to arrange.
Definition of Appoint
1. Verb. (transitive) : To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) : 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. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) : To assign, designate, or set apart by authority. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) : To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) , ''(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. --Alexander Mansfield Burrill. Kent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Appoint
1. to name or assign to a position or office [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appoint
Literary usage of Appoint
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1905)
"426- There is no doubt that it is within the faculty of every full-Sovereign
State to appoint consuls. As regards not full-Sovereign States, every- thing ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"The Statute does not use tbe word "appoint," but uses the word "select."
His position is without tenure, duration, continuing emolument or ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"... as the substance; providing a mode for that legatee to take, which is not
provided for any other legatee. the person who was to appoint the Charity, ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"... to appoint an attorney in fact to represent him In his absence, the bond is
discharged as completely as if the tender had been actually made and ..."
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