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.

Verb

(head)

* {{quote-book, year=1560, author=Peter Whitehorne, title=Machiavelli, Volume I, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Thei devide all their inhabiters into divers partes: and every parte thei name of the kinde of those weapons, that thei use in the warre. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1590, author=, title=Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, chapter=, edition=1921 ed. citation

, passage=XXXVII His owne two hands the holy knots did knit, 325 That none but death for ever can devide ; His owne two hands, for such a turne most fit, The housling fire[*] did kindle and provide, And holy water thereon sprinckled wide; At which the bushy Teade a groome did light, 330 And sacred lamp in secret chamber hide, Where it should not be quenched day nor night, For feare of evill fates, but burnen ever bright. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1630, author=William Pemble, title=A Briefe Introduction to Geography, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The greater circles are those which devide this earthly globe into equall halfes or Haemispheres. }}