transitive verb. To select or designate to fill an office or a position.

transitive verb. To fix or set by authority or by mutual agreement.

transitive verb. To furnish; equip.

transitive verb. To direct the disposition of (property) to a person or persons in exercise of a power granted for this purpose by a preceding deed.

. To make fast or firm; found; establish; secure.

To constitute, ordain, or fix by decree, order, or decision; decree; command; prescribe.

To allot, set apart, or designate; nominate or authoritatively assign, as for a use, or to a post or office.

To settle; fix, name, or determine by authority or upon agreement: as, they appointed a time and place for the meeting.

In law, to fix the destination of (property) by designating a person or persons to take the use of an estate created by a preceding deed or will, conferring on the appointor the power so to do.

. To point at by way of censure; arraign: as, “appoint not heavenly disposition,” Milton, S. A., 1. 373.

To provide with what is requisite; equip.

To agree upon; decide upon or settle definitely.

Synonyms To prescribe, establish, direct. To assign, destine, constitute, create. To furnish, supply.

To ordain; resolve; determine.

In law, to exercise a power of appointment.

intransitive verb. To ordain; to determine; to arrange.

transitive verb. To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.

transitive verb. 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.

transitive verb. To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.

transitive verb. To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.

transitive verb. To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign.

transitive verb. 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.

transitive verb. to resolve.

verb. : To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.

verb. : 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.

verb. : To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.

verb. : To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.

verb. , (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. --Alexander Mansfield Burrill. Kent.

verb. assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to

verb. furnish

verb. create and charge with a task or function

"The task of those with the power to appoint is to choose those who, because of their public or nonpublic personality, are less likely to become seriously corrupt than the average applicant."

equip  

equip  fit  fit out  outfit  

accredit  assign  authorise  authorize  create  

anoint  datapoint  disappoint  disjoint  joint  

Hus  alpha-shift  below-deck  cryptologic  detain  

accouter  allocate  allot  appropriate to  arm  

appointed  appointing  appoints