meaning of appoint
1. To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
2. 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.
3. To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.
4. To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.
5. To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign.
6. 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.
7. To ordain; to determine; to arrange.
8. furnish; "a beautifully appointed
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Related Words
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