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Appointed   /əpˈɔɪntəd/  /əpˈɔɪntɪd/   Listen
Appointed

adjective
1.
Subject to appointment.  Synonym: appointive.
2.
Selected for a job.
3.
Fixed or established especially by order or command.  Synonyms: decreed, ordained, prescribed.
4.
Provided with furnishing and accessories (especially of a tasteful kind).


Appoint

verb
(past & past part. appointed; pres. part. appointing)
1.
Create and charge with a task or function.  Synonyms: constitute, name, nominate.
2.
Assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to.  Synonym: charge.  "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance"
3.
Furnish.



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"Appointed" Quotes from Famous Books



... Bainrothe," with its elaborate German characters, on which was written, in pencil, the addendum, "Will call at ten o'clock;" and, punctual as the hand to the hour, he knocked at the dressing-room door at the appointed time, and was admitted. ...
— Sea and Shore - A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs" • Mrs. Catharine A. Warfield
... all male, that Dora Yocum's day was coming. The nature of the disaster was left vague, but there was no doubt in the world that retribution merely awaited its ideal opportunity. "You'll see!" said Ramsey. "The time'll come when that ole girl'll wish she'd moved o' this town before she ever got appointed monitor of our ...
— Ramsey Milholland • Booth Tarkington
... stub of a cigar, eyed his medical adviser with an unsympathetic stare, but this in no way disturbed the self-appointed critic. "For a long time now, Barb," he continued, "you've been in the nastiest kind of a fight on Jim Laramie. You've tried to run him off the range and you tried to beat him out of his land and you've tried to break him. He's got the best land in the Falling ...
— Laramie Holds the Range • Frank H. Spearman
... of my lord is the will of his slave," meekly replied Kamuso, and crept back to his former sheltered nook beside the fire. The chill March night grew on toward morning, the east reddened with an angry glare, the solemn stars wheeled on their appointed courses, and Mars, who had held the morning watch, gave way to Sol, bidding him have a care of his son, whom he had left gazing with sleepless eyes across the waters ...
— Standish of Standish - A story of the Pilgrims • Jane G. Austin
... earth must be the appointed hatching planet of calumny enough to furnish the whole universe. I feel a disgust at my own person, as if I had tumbled into some filthy hole. Pah! And you—all you can say is that you won't judge me; ...
— Victory • Joseph Conrad


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