Results for appoint

Definitions of appoint:

part of speech: verb intransitive

To decree; ordain; determine; nominate.

part of speech: verb

To fix upon; to settle; to ordain; to furnish.

part of speech: verb transitive

To name; to establish by decree; to assign; to designate for an office; to fix the time and order of; to furnish or equip.

part of speech: verb transitive

To fix: to settle: to name to an office: to equip.

Usage examples for appoint:

• " If you can show just cause," said Manison, " the Court will follow established precedent and appoint Mr. and Mrs. Fisher as your responsible legal guardians- if that is your desire." "The Fourth R", George Oliver Smith

• I cannot afford to make enemies for those whom I did not appoint "The English Constitution", Walter Bagehot

• I am afraid we shall be losing you, for he will, I should say, assuredly appoint you to one of his ships if you ask him. "When London Burned", G. A. Henty

• Johnson now charged Grant with failing to keep a promise either to hold on himself or to make it possible to appoint some one else who would hold on until the matter might be brought into the courts. "The Sequel of Appomattox A Chronicle of the Reunion of the States, Volume 32 In The Chronicles Of America Series", Walter Lynwood Fleming