Appoint
[ə'pɒɪnt] or [ə'pɔɪnt]
Definition
(verb.) furnish; 'a beautifully appointed house'.
(verb.) create and charge with a task or function; 'nominate a committee'.
(verb.) assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to; 'He was appointed deputy manager'; 'She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance'.
Typed by Barnaby--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.
(v. t.) To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.
(v. t.) To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To ordain; to determine; to arrange.
Checked by Jerome
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Fix, determine, prescribe, set, establish.[2]. Direct, ordain, enjoin, require, command, decree, order, bid, impose, insist on.[3]. Assign, allot, designate, destine.[4]. Nominate, name, constitute, create.[5]. Furnish, equip, supply.
Typist: Rosanna
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Fix, determine, instal, allot, order, prescribe, institute, employ, apportion,apply, designate, assign, intrust, invest, ordain, arrange
ANT:Reverse, cancel, recall, withdraw, reserve, withhold, retain, undo, suspend,disarrange, disappoint
Editor: Moore
Definition
v.t. to fix: to settle: assign grant: to name to an office: to destine devote: to equip (obs. except in pa.p..).—p.adj. Appoint′ed established: furnished.—n. Appoint′ment settlement: engagement: direction: situation: arrangement: (obs.) allowance paid to a public officer: (pl.) equipments.
Checker: Susie
Examples
- But I told Traddles, and Mr. and Mrs. Micawber, that before I could think of leaving, they must appoint a day when they would come and dine with me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Will you come and see me today, at any time you like to appoint? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I did at one time mean, said Miss Flite, echoing the sigh, to nominate, constitute, and appoint poor Gridley. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Any time you was pleased to appoint to-morrow morning, I was to show you the presses and things they belong to. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Now, once for all she would consider them, and appoint to each of them its right work in her life. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I assured him that I would hold myself in readiness at any hour he would appoint to call for me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- In cases of national extremity it was the custom to set all other magistrates aside and appoint one leader, the Dictator. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Chance set me free of my London engagements to-day sooner than I had expected, and I have got here, in consequence, earlier than my appointed time. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He wished, too, that the officers should be appointed altogether by himself, and not be nominated by the people, as the bill had proposed. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- By this act I was appointed one of the commissioners for disposing of the money, sixty thousand pounds. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Instead of it, a new supreme court of judicature was established, consisting of a chief justice and three judges, to be appointed by the crown. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Isn't it an extraordinary thing of Krook to have appointed twelve o'clock to-night to hand 'em over to me? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A praetor, therefore, was appointed to administer it in his stead. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- When all is quiet again, the lodger says, It's the appointed time at last. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The Pacha of a Pachalic does not trouble himself with appointing tax-collectors. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They enjoyed so much the ordering and the appointing of it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They universally, therefore, discharged themselves of it, by appointing a deputy, bailiff or judge. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The little singing-bird that never was fledged, was long kept in a cage by a guardian of your appointing, well enough known to our old intriguer here. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I supposed that if you wanted to see me you would have sent to me, appointing me to come somewhere near the school, as I did last time. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Typist: Vivienne