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Appoint   /əpˈɔɪnt/   Listen
Appoint

verb
(past & past part. appointed; pres. part. appointing)
1.
Create and charge with a task or function.  Synonyms: constitute, name, nominate.
2.
Assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to.  Synonym: charge.  "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance"
3.
Furnish.



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"Appoint" Quotes from Famous Books



... see you this morning. Will you call upon me, or appoint a time and place where I ...
— If, Yes and Perhaps - Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact • Edward Everett Hale

... country is sufficiently recompensed by the satisfaction I have had to oblige you, and by acquiring you for a son; for since you will do me the honour to attend me, and that I have no child, I look upon you as one; and from this moment I appoint ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments Volume 1 • Anonymous

... words. I've wanted to go for him many times myself; but"—he was going to say, "I'm not big enough," but he drew himself up to the top of his few inches and expanded his chest—"I haven't the time. Here! The business seems to come handy and easy to you. I'll appoint you chucker-out; in other words, I'll make you deputy-manager, Mr. Green. I've had my eye on you, and I'll tell you, in strict confidence, that it's very little that escapes this eye of mine." He twisted ...
— The Woman's Way • Charles Garvice

... set in a hard red line. At the door she paused and turning back as if upon impulse, said: "If it makes you feel like that, I would advise you not to look at it, Auntie. It will be quite safe. I'll see to that. I'll appoint ...
— Up the Hill and Over • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

... on our statute books allowing fathers to will away their unborn children; laws allowing the father to appoint guardians of whatever kind or creed over his children, leaving the mother powerless. And what shall we say about the abominable laws made by men everyone of them, that ...
— The Daughter of a Republican • Bernie Babcock


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