## Meanings
1. To officially choose someone for a job or position.
2. To decide on or fix a time or place by authority or agreement.
3. To furnish or equip a place fully.

## Examples
- The board appointed her as the new director.
- They appointed one o'clock as the time for the meeting.
- The hall was elegantly appointed for the celebration.

## Synonyms
- accredit
- allot
- assign
- choose
- command
- decide
- decree
- delegate
- designate
- direct
- elect
- employ

## Antonyms
- decline
- disallow
- dismiss
- fire
- ignore
- neglect
- refuse
- reject
- revoke
- terminate
- unfurnish

## Derived Forms
- appointable
- appointee
- appointer
- appointive
- appointment
- appointor
- foreappoint
- preappoint
- reappoint
- self-appoint
- unappoint
- well-appointed

## Related Forms
- point

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: apointen
- Root: apointier
- Root: appunctō

## Etymology
From Middle English apointen, borrowed from Old French apointier (“to prepare, arrange, lean, place”) (French appointer (“to give a salary, refer a cause”)), from Late Latin appunctō (“to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement”); Latin ad + punctum (“a point”). See point.

## AI Etymology
Appoint comes from Middle English apointen, borrowed from Old French apointier (“to prepare, arrange, lean, place”), with French appointer (“to give a salary, refer a cause”), from Late Latin appunctō (“to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement”); Latin ad plus punctum (“a point”). Compare point.

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