appoint

B1
US /əˈpɔɪnt/
verb Freq #11893

Meanings

  1. 1
    verb

    to furnish

    I hired a decorator to appoint the house.

  2. 2
    verb

    to assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to

    They were appointed deputy manager.

  3. 3
    verb

    To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting itself) by authority or agreement.

    His Royal Highness called to pay his respects to her Majesty; but, from the unexpected nature of his visit, her Majesty was not in a state then to receive him; but soon after sent a letter to Prince Leopold, to appoint one o'clock this day for an interview.

  4. 4
    verb

    To name (someone to a post or role).

    Aaron and his shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service.

  5. 5
    verb

    To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out.

    It was a handsome old stucco hall, very elegantly appointed, for Winter was a bachelor and prided himself on his style; but the place was beset by collieries.

  6. 6
    verb

    To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).

    after mature Deliberation, he appointed them a Ship of seventy Tons,

  7. 7
    verb

    To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).

    If the donee of a power appoint the fund to one of the objects of the power, under an understanding that the latter is to lend the fund to tho former, although on good security, the appointment is bad.

  8. 8
    verb

    To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.

    When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

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.

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Thesaurus

Synonyms
2 verb · to assign a duty,... charge
4 verb · to name (someone to a post... make
Opposites
declinedisallowdismissfireignoreneglectrefuserejectrevoketerminateunfurnish
Word family
Derived forms appointableappointeeappointerappointiveappointmentappointorforeappointpreappointreappointself-appointunappointwell-appointed
Related forms point

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