Appointable
to name or -ssign to a position, an office, or the like; designate:
to appoint a new treasurer; to appoint a judge to the bench.
to determine by authority or agreement; fix; set:
to appoint a time for the meeting.
law. to designate (a person) to take the benefit of an estate created by a deed or will.
to provide with what is necessary; equip; furnish:
they appointed the house with all the latest devices.
archaic. to order or establish by decree or command; ordain; const-tute:
laws appointed by g-d.
obsolete. to point at by way of censure.
obsolete. to ordain; resolve; determine.
verb (mainly transitive)
(also intransitive) to -ssign officially, as for a position, responsibility, etc: he was appointed manager
to establish by agreement or decree; fix: a time was appointed for the duel
to prescribe or ordain: laws appointed by tribunal
(property law) to nominate (a person), under a power granted in a deed or will, to take an interest in property
to equip with necessary or usual features; furnish: a well-appointed hotel
v.
late 14c., “to decide, resolve; to arrange the time of (a meeting, etc.),” from anglo-french appointer, old french apointier “make ready, arrange, settle, place” (12c.), from apointer “duly, fitly,” from phrase à point “to the point,” from a- “to” (see ad-) + point “point,” from latin punctum (see point (n.)). the ground sense is “to come to a point (about some matter),” therefore “agree, settle.” meaning “put (someone) in charge” is early 15c. related: appointed; appointing.
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