Verb

(announc)

(label) To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.

* (convert into real quote) (1724-1804)

Her [Queen Elizabeth’s] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}

(label) To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.

* (Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)

Publish laws, announce / Or life or death.

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.

* 1611 , (King James Version) Proverbs 8.29

When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

To fix the time and place of a meeting (by a decree, order, command etc.)

* 8 November 2014 , Ivan Hewett in The Telegraph'', '' Art on demand makes emperors of us all

*:We have to wait until they're ready to receive us, and make sure we turn up at the appointed time.

* 1820 , The Edinburgh Annual Register

*:His Royal Highness called to pay his respects to her Majesty ; but, from the unexpected nature of his visit, her Majesty was not in a state then to receive him ; but soon after sent a letter to Prince Leopold, to appoint one o'clock this day for an interview.

* 1611 , (King James Version) 2 Samuel 15.15

Thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint .

To give a job or a role to somebody

* 3 November 2014 , Fredric U. Dicker in the (New York Post), '' Cuomo appointed 'vote or else' strategist

*:Neal Kwatra, appointed by Cuomo to be the state Democratic Party's chief campaign strategist, was identified by two key Democratic insiders

* 1611 , (King James Version) Numbers 4.19

Aaron and his shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service.

To furnish completely; to provide with all the equipment necessary; to equip or fit out.

* 2009 , Donald Olson, Germany for Dummies

*:The hotel is beautifully designed and beautifully appointed in a classic, modern style that manages to be both serene and luxurious at the same time.

(archaic, transitive, legal) 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.

:(Alexander Mansfield Burrill)

To point at by way of censure or commendation; to arraign.

* Milton

Appoint not heavenly disposition.