appoint
English
/əˈpɔɪnt/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting itself) by authority or agreement.
- (transitive) To name (someone to a post or role).
- (transitive) To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out.
- (transitive) To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).
- (transitive) To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).
- (obsolete) To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.
- (obsolete) To resolve; to determine; to ordain.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English apointen borrowed from Old French apointier (prepare, lean, arrange, place) derived from Latin appunctare.
Origin
Latin
appunctare
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- appointable English
- appointer English
- appointest English
- appointeth English
- appointive English
- appointor English
- foreappoint English
- preappoint English
- reappoint English
- reappointee English
- unappoint English
- unappointable English
- appunctare Latin
- appunctāre Latin
- appointement French
- appointer French
- désappointer French
- apuntación Spanish, Castilian
- apuntador Spanish, Castilian
- apuntamiento Spanish, Castilian
- apuntar Spanish, Castilian
- punta Spanish, Castilian
- punto Spanish, Castilian
- apointen Middle English
- apointier Old French