The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appoint \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.]
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To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
When he appointed the foundations of the earth.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign. [Obs.]
Appoint not heavenly disposition.
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(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.
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vb. (present participle of appoint English)
Usage examples of "appointing".
Hence arose immense arrears in the expenditure, and the necessity of appointing a committee of liquidation.
He therefore cancelled that clause which proposed to give him the power of appointing a successor, and which had been carried by a small majority.
These signatures were all written by Mallet, and he drew up a decree in the name of the Senate, and signed by the same Senators, appointing himself Governor of Paris, and commander of the troops of the first military division.
Restoration, but for a long time I refused to believe that his influence should have outweighed all the serious considerations opposed to such a perfect anomaly as appointing Fouche the Minister of a Bourbon.
At the same time it was ordered that a physician and surgeon of their own appointing should see Wilkes, and report their opinion on his case.
He asked if the democratic party exhibits a contempt for the laws, how any governor was to enforce them, if he had not the power either of appointing or removing magistrates?
Being, therefore, under the necessity of not appointing an assembly, this is the only legislature you can give the Canadians, and it is the one under which they live at present.
Finally, this meeting of the dissolved assembly of Virginia, agreed that the members who should be elected under the new writs then issuing, should meet in convention at Williamsburgh, on the first of August, for the purpose of appointing delegates to sit in congress.
Having done all this, early in December the provincial congress of Massachusets prorogued themselves, appointing a new meeting in the ensuing month of February.
Washington received a commission from the French monarch, appointing him lieutenant-general in the French armies, and investing him with the chief command in America.
At this period, indeed, political associations had acquired considerable strength and consistency, and their danger was increased by the new and unconstitutional measure of appointing delegates to transact their business in the capital, and to promote the objects of their petitions.
On the 21st of December, a bill was passed for appointing commissioners to inquire into frauds and abuses in the several naval departments, and for the better conducting the business of those departments.
In 1803 a bill had been passed, appointing commissioners to make inquiries into the abuses of the naval department.
Brand, for appointing a committee to inquire into precedents, was rejected by a large majority.
To this committee he would leave the duty of appointing select committees, by whom election petitions were to be tried.