Depute vs Appoint - What's the difference?
depute | appoint |
(obsolete) To assign (someone or something) to or for something.
To delegate (a task etc.) to a subordinate.
* 2006 , Clive James, North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 229:
To deputize (someone), to appoint as deputy.
* Bible 2. Sam. xv. 3
* Macaulay
To appoint; to assign; to choose.
* Barrow
(obsolete) To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
* 1611 , (King James Version) Proverbs 8.29
To fix the time and place of a meeting (by a decree, order, command etc.)
* 8 November 2014 , Ivan Hewett in The Telegraph'', ''
*: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
To give a job or a role to somebody
* 3 November 2014 , Fredric U. Dicker in the (New York Post), ''
*: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
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
As verbs the difference between depute and appoint
is that depute is to assign (someone or something) to or for something while appoint is to fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.As a noun depute
is deputy.depute
English
Verb
(deput)- Will Wyatt having moved up a notch, the project was deputed to a second team of producers whose judgement I didn't trust.
- There is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.
- Some persons, deputed by a meeting.
- The most conspicuous places in cities are usually deputed for the erection of statues.
appoint
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Verb
(en verb)- When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
Art on demand makes emperors of us all
- Thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint .
Cuomo appointed 'vote or else' strategist
- Aaron and his shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service.
- Appoint not heavenly disposition.
