appoint

Forms

present (v1): appoint
past (v2): appointed
past participle (v3): appointed
present participle: appointing
3rd person singular: appoints

Definitions

1.To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting itself) by authority or agreement.
- We have to wait until they're ready to receive us, and make sure we turn up at the appointed time.
2.To name (someone to a post or role).
- Aaron and his shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service.
3.To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out.
- The hotel is beautifully designed and beautifully appointed in a classic, modern style that manages to be both serene and luxurious at the same time.
- 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.
4.To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).

Frequency

Overall

Uncommon· #3376

By learning goal

Everyday conversation: Rare
General reading & writing: Uncommon
Academic: Rare
Literature: Rare

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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”).