Definition of Appointive

1. Adjective. Relating to the act of appointing. "Appointive powers"

Derivative terms: Appoint, Appoint
Partainyms: Appointment

2. Adjective. Subject to appointment.
Exact synonyms: Appointed
Similar to: Nominated, Nominative, Non-elective, Nonelected, Nonelective
Derivative terms: Appoint, Appoint
Antonyms: Elective

Definition of Appointive

1. a. Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office.

Definition of Appointive

1. Adjective. of, pertaining to, or filled by appointment ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Appointive

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Appointive

applotting
apply
apply oneself
applyed
applying
appoggiatura
appoggiaturas
appoint
appointable
appointed
appointee
appointees
appointer
appointers
appointing
appointive (current term)
appointment
appointment book
appointment calendar
appointment diary
appointments
appointments and schedules
appointor
appointors
appoints
apport
apporter
apportion
apportionable
apportionateness

Literary usage of Appointive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North (1914)
"Recall of appointive Officers.—The Recall of Judicial Decisions —No ... scope of al convention, before which time (hoc-time recall all appointive as well as ..."

2. The City School District: Statutory Provisions for Organization and Fiscal by Harry Erwin Bard (1909)
"6 Elective or appointive. The members of a board of education may be either ... Other important school districts having appointive boards are Baltimore, ..."

3. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by New York (State). Constitutional Convention (1916)
"... when two or three amendments were offered for the purpose of returning to the appointive system. They received scant attention from the Convention. ..."

4. Nominating Systems: Direct Primaries Versus Conventions in the United States by Ernst Christopher Meyer (1902)
"The possibility of these changes arises from the fact that under civil service rules many offices, now arbitrarily appointive, would be filled through ..."

5. The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century by Herbert Levi Osgood (1904)
"By 1700 the necessity of an appointive council had apparently become obvious to those who had the rights of the proprietor and the ..."

6. Government and Politics in the United States by William Backus Guitteau (1922)
"appointive Officers of State Administration. In addition to these elective officers, a large number of appointive officials are charged with special ..."

7. An Introduction to the Study of Government by Lucius Hudson Holt (1915)
"appointive POWERS OF THE ELECTORATE The powers of the electorate are mainly appointive in the democratic states of the world. The degree of democracy which ..."

8. A History of French Private Law by Jean Brissaud (1912)
"In France every Guardianship is appointive. § 191. Intervention of the State. S 192. Feudal Law. 193. Seigniorial Protection. 194. The Lease of Fiefs. 195. ..."

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