vt to assign, designate, or set apart by authority.
2. appoint ·vt to fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
3. appoint ·vt to point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign.
4. appoint ·vi to ordain; to determine; to arrange.
5. appoint ·vt to furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.
6. appoint ·vt 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.
7. appoint ·vt 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.