The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appointive \Ap*point"ive\, a. Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office. [R.]
Wiktionary
a. of, pertaining to, or filled by appointment
WordNet
Usage examples of "appointive".
That thereafter elections shall be held only on such days and under such regulations as to ballots, voting, and qualifications of electors as may be prescribed by the Philippine Legislature, to which is hereby given authority to redistrict the Philippine Islands and modify, amend, or repeal any provision of this section, except such as refer to appointive senators and representatives.
By popular superstition, every officeholder, appointive or elective, is suspected of living by a process midway between cannibalism and vampirism, and classed with robbing the dead.
Every time when, by a change in state law or by local option, they try to set the office up on an appointive basis with specific qualifications, thousands' of loud right-wing nuts rise up out of the shrubbery and start screaming about being deprived of their democratic rights and their voting franchise.