Appoint
Appoint (ap*point") , transitive verb
[Old English appointen, apointen, Old French apointier to prepare, arrange, lean, place, French appointer to give a salary, refer a cause, from Late Latin appunctare to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement; Latin ad + punctum a point. See Point.]
1.
To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
When he appointed the foundations of the earth.
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.
Thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint.
He hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness.
Say that the emperor request a parley... and appoint the meeting.
3.
To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.
Aaron and his shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service.
These were cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
4.
To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.
The English, being well appointed, did so entertain them that their ships departed terribly torn.
5.
To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign. [Obsolete]
Appoint not heavenly disposition.
6.
(Law) 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. — Burrill. Kent
Collocations (1)
To appoint one's self , to resolve. [Obsolete] — Crowley
Appoint (ap*point") , intransitive verb
To ordain; to determine; to arrange.
For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel.