Appoint

Pronunciation

• US IPA: /əˈpɔɪnt/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪnt

Origin

Middle English apointen, from Old French apointier ("to prepare, arrange, lean, place") (French appointer ("to give a salary, refer a cause")), from Late Latin appunctare ("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.

Full definition of appoint

Verb

1. (transitive) To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.When he appointed the foundations of the earth. --Prov. viii. 29.
2. (transitive) 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 requests a parley ... and appoint the meeting. -- Shakspeare Titus Andronicus IV iv.
3. (transitive) 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. (transitive) 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. (transitive, legal) 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. --Alexander Mansfield Burrill. Kent.
6. To point at by way of censure or commendation; to arraign.
• MiltonAppoint not heavenly disposition.