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Appointed   /əpˈɔɪntəd/  /əpˈɔɪntɪd/   Listen
Appointed

adjective
1.
Subject to appointment.  Synonym: appointive.  Antonym: elective.
2.
Selected for a job.
3.
Fixed or established especially by order or command.  Synonyms: decreed, ordained, prescribed.
4.
Provided with furnishing and accessories (especially of a tasteful kind).


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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"Appointed" Quotes from Famous Books



... and Cumberland, which had been surrendered by Stephen (see p. 133). In his government Henry did his best to carry out the plans of his grandfather, Henry I. It was perhaps because he was afraid that one Justiciar would be too powerful, that he appointed two, Richard de Lucy and the Earl of Leicester, to see that justice was executed and the government maintained whether the king were absent or present. The old Bishop Nigel of Ely was reappointed Treasurer, ...
— A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) - From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII • Samuel Rawson Gardiner
... through the influence of Archbishop Whitgift appointed, in 1585, Master of the Temple; but a great effort had just been made to obtain the place for a Mr. Walter Travers, well known in that day, though now it is Hooker's name which alone preserves his. This Travers was then afternoon-lecturer ...
— Culture and Anarchy • Matthew Arnold
... picturesque domesticity of a rattling tavern must have leaned on their elbows for many a year, I made out the far-off lurid twinkle of the London constellations. At the foot of the stairs, enshrined in the glittering niche of her well-appointed bar, the landlady sat napping like some solemn idol amid votive brass ...
— A Passionate Pilgrim • Henry James
... a state-ball at the Royal Palace had been announced. Thither, at the appointed hour, Mr. Punch and his hoary associate were conveyed. As they approached, the royal band struck up a martial air, the Lord Chamberlain advanced to meet them, and ushered them into the magnificent hall in which the guests ...
— Punch Among the Planets • Various
... was again displayed north of the Tweed, the usual noble names are found among its followers. In 1307 Scotland lost her most formidable foe, by the death of Edward, and at the same time began to recognize her appointed deliverer in the person of Robert Bruce. But we must return to "the Red Earl," the central figure in our own annals ...
— A Popular History of Ireland - From the earliest period to the emancipation of the Catholics • Thomas D'Arcy McGee


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