Definition of Appoint

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Appoint

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

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.

To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.

To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.

To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign.

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.

To ordain; to determine; to arrange.

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Appoint Quotations

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.
Ross Perot

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.
Louis XIV

In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this does not imply that he must or should appoint members of the 'other' party to his Cabinet, which could contribute to inaction and inefficiency.
Richard V. Allen

The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process.
John Jay Hooker

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
Karel Capek

The time frame is very small to disarm the militia, to bring about a security situation in which the governing council, the 24 Iraqis or however many others they appoint, can govern the country.
Richard Lugar

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.
Shirley Chisholm

The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.
Bobby R. Inman

You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.
Antony Sher

Appoint Translations

appoint in Afrikaans is aanstel
appoint in Dutch is benoemen, aanstellen
appoint in French is appointer, appointez, appointons, appointent
appoint in German is erstellen, ernennen, ernennen, bestimmen
appoint in Italian is creare, produrre
appoint in Latin is constituo, monstro, monstro
appoint in Norwegian is utnevne, fastsette
appoint in Portuguese is aponte

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