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Appointed   /əpˈɔɪntəd/  /əpˈɔɪntɪd/   Listen
verb
Appoint  v. t.  (past & past part. appointed; pres. part. appointing)  
1.
To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out. "When he appointed the foundations of the earth."
2.
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." "He hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness." "Say that the emperor request a parley... and appoint the meeting."
3.
To assign, designate, or set apart by authority. "Aaron and his shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service." "These were cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them."
4.
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."
5.
To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign. (Obs.) "Appoint not heavenly disposition."
6.
(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.
To appoint one's self, to resolve. (Obs.)


Appoint  v. i.  To ordain; to determine; to arrange. "For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel."


adjective
appointed  adj.  
1.
Having acquired an office or responsibility through appointment; said of officials, and contrasting with elected.
2.
Fixed or established by order or command.
Synonyms: decreed, ordained, prescribed.
3.
Provided with furnishing and accessories especially of a tasteful kind. "A house that is beautifully appointed"
4.
Selected for a duty or job





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"Appointed" Quotes from Famous Books



... fountain, and allured through the love of longer life, went to an island, near unto the country of Florida, to drink of the desired fountain, ... and having well drunk and washed himself for many days with the appointed remedies, by them who kept the bath, he is reported to have brought home a manly strength, and to have used all manly exercises. "Let us therefore go thither," he ...
— Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic • Thomas Wentworth Higginson
... of the Admiralty is appointed by a commission under the great seal, which enumerates particularly, as well as generally, every object of his jurisdiction, but not ...
— The Laws Of War, Affecting Commerce And Shipping • H. Byerley Thomson
... colonies except Pennsylvania and Georgia there was also an upper legislative house or council whose consent was necessary before laws could be enacted. The members composing this branch of the legislature were appointed by the governor except in Massachusetts where they were elected by the lower branch of the legislature, subject to a negative by the royal governor, and in Rhode Island and Connecticut where they were chosen by ...
— The Spirit of American Government - A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And - Relation To Democracy • J. Allen Smith
... against a 'sovereign' State? To invade one for coercion? To blockade a port? To declare slaves free? To suspend the writ of habeas corpus? To create the State of West Virginia by the consent of two states, one of which was dead, and the other one of which lived in Ohio? By what authority have you appointed military governors in the 'sovereign' States of Virginia, Tennessee, and Louisiana? Why trim the hedge and lie about it? We, too, are revolutionists, and you are our executive. The Constitution sustained and protected slavery. It was 'a league ...
— The Clansman - An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan • Thomas Dixon
... the 8th, when the President was expected, Lieutenant-General Washington and Generals Pinckney and Hamilton entered the hall and took their places on the right of the speaker's chair. They had been recently appointed to command the army ...
— Albert Gallatin - American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII • John Austin Stevens


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