Noun

(en noun)

The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust.

He erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.

The state of being appointed to a service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position.

the appointment of treasurer

Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement.

An arrangement for a meeting; an engagement.

They made an appointment to meet at six.

I'm leaving work early because I have a doctor's appointment .

Decree; direction; established order or constitution.

To submit to the divine appointments .

According to the appointment of the priests. --Ezra vi. 9.

(Law) The exercise of the power of designating (under a power of appointment ) a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.

(Government) The assignment of a person by an official to perform a duty, such as a presidential appointment of a judge to a court.

Equipment, furniture.

* 1910 , (Saki), ‘The Soul of Laploshka’, Reginald in Russia :

The appointments were primitive, but the Schnitzel, the beer, and the cheese could not have been improved on.

(US) A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment.

Noun

(en noun)

A course of action that a person intends to follow.

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*(Samuel Johnson) (1709-1784) (but see Apocryhpha )

*:Hell is paved with good intentions .

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*:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=3 , passage=It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me.

The goal or purpose behind a specific action or set of actions.

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(lb) Tension; straining, stretching.

*, I.iii.3:

*:cold in those inner parts, cold belly, and hot liver, causeth crudity, and intention proceeds from perturbations […].

A stretching or bending of the mind toward of the mind toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.

*(John Locke) (1632-1705)

*:Intention is when the mind, with great earnestness, and of choice, fixes its view on any idea.

(lb) The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.

*1732 , (John Arbuthnot), An Essay Concerning the Nature of Ailments … , Prop. II, p.159:

*:In a Word, the most part of chronical Distempers proceed from Laxity of Fibres; in which Case the principal Intention is to restore the Tone of the solid Parts;.

(lb) Any mental apprehension of an object.

(lb) The process of the healing of a wound.

*2007 , Carie Ann Braun, ?Cindy Miller Anderson, Pathophysiology: Functional Alterations in Human Health , p.49:

*:When healing occurs by primary intention , the wound is basically closed with all areas of the wound connecting and healing simultaneously.

(Webster 1913)