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Webster 1828 Edition


Appointed

APPOINT'ED

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1.
Fixed; set; established; decreed; ordained; constituted; allotted.
2.
Furnished; equipped with things necessary; as, a ship or an army is well appointed.

Definition 2024


appointed

appointed

English

Verb

appointed

  1. simple past tense and past participle of appoint.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 3, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”

Adjective

appointed (not comparable)

  1. (of a politician or a title) Subject to appointment, as opposed to an election.
    In the United States, the Secretary of State is an appointed position.