Definition of appoint

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Appoint (v. t.) To assign, designate, or set apart by authority..

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Appointment :: Appointment (n.) Decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments..
Point :: Point (v. t. & i.) To appoint.
Teller :: Teller (n.) One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king..
Treat :: Treat (v. i.) To negotiate; to come to terms of accommodation; -- often followed by with; as, envoys were appointed to treat with France..
Charity :: Charity (n.) Eleemosynary appointments [grants or devises] including relief of the poor or friendless, education, religious culture, and public institutions..
Doom :: Doom (v. t.) To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate..
Rue :: Rue (n.) Fig.: Bitterness; disappointment; grief; regret.
Prescribe :: Prescribe (v. t.) To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct..
Illude :: Illude (v. t.) To play upon by artifice; to deceive; to mock; to excite and disappoint the hopes of.
Director :: Director (n.) One of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation; as, the directors of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company..
Curator :: Curator (n.) One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee; a guardian..
Disappointed :: Disappointed (a.) Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope..
Tryst :: Tryst (n.) An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst..
Disappointment :: Disappointment (n.) The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration..
Unset :: Unset (a.) Not set; not fixed or appointed.
Detail :: Detail (n.) To tell off or appoint for a particular service, as an officer, a troop, or a squadron..
Deputation :: Deputation (n.) The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency..
Coquet :: Coquet (v. t.) To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint..
Disappointing :: Disappointing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disappoin.
Official :: Official (a.) An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction..
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