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ap⋅point
[uh-point] 
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | to name or assign to a position, an office, or the like; designate: to appoint a new treasurer; to appoint a judge to the bench. |
| 2. | to determine by authority or agreement; fix; set: to appoint a time for the meeting. |
| 3. | Law. to designate (a person) to take the benefit of an estate created by a deed or will. |
| 4. | to provide with what is necessary; equip; furnish: They appointed the house with all the latest devices. |
| 5. | Archaic. to order or establish by decree or command; ordain; constitute: laws appointed by God. |
| 6. | Obsolete. to point at by way of censure. |
–verb (used without object)
| 7. | Obsolete. to ordain; resolve; determine. |
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| ap·point (ə-point') tr.v. ap·point·ed, ap·point·ing, ap·points
[Middle English appointen, from Old French apointer, apointier, to arrange, from a point, to the point : a, to (from Latin ad; see ad-) + point, point; see point.] Synonyms: These verbs mean to select for an office or position: was appointed chairperson of the committee; expects to be designated leader of the opposition; a new police commissioner named by the mayor; to be nominated as her party's candidate; was tapped for fraternity membership. See Also Synonyms at furnish. |
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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.]1. To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out. When he appointed the foundations of the earth. --Prov. viii. 29. 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. --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. --Shak. 3. 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. --Josh. xx. 9. 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. --Hayward. 5. To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign. [Obs.] Appoint not heavenly disposition. --Milton. 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. --Burrill. Kent. To appoint one's self, to resolve. [Obs.] --Crowley.Appoint
Ap*point"\ ([a^]p*point"), v. i. To ordain; to determine; to arrange. For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel. --2 Sam. xvii. 14.
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Language Translation for : appoint
Spanish:
nombrar,
German:
einstellen,
Japanese:
任命する
appoint
c.1374, from O.Fr. apointier "to arrange, settle, place," from apointer "duly, fitly," from phrase à point "to the point," from a- "to" + point "point," from L. punctum. The ground sense is "to come to a point about (a matter), agree, settle." Appointment first recorded 1417; meaning "agreement or arrangement for a meeting" is from c.1530; sense of "act of placing in office" is from 1658.
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Main Entry: ap·point
Pronunciation: &-'point
Function: transitive verb
1 : to name officially to a position <appointed to the agency's top post> <appointed conservator of the estate>
2 : to determine the distribution of (property) by exercising the authority granted by a power of appointment appoint the corpus of a trust —W. M. McGovern, Junior et al.> intransitive verb : to exercise a power of appointment —see also POWER OF APPOINTMENT —ap·point·ive /&-'poin-tiv/ adjective —ap·point·ment noun
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