verb
- Create and charge with a task or function.
- usage: "nominate a committee"
- synonyms: appoint, name, nominate, constitute
- Assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to.
- usage: "He was appointed deputy manager"; "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance"
- Furnish.
- usage: "a beautifully appointed house"
- synonyms: appoint
adjective
- Subject to appointment.
- synonyms: appointive
- Selected for a job.
- usage: "the one appointed for guard duty"
- Fixed or established especially by order or command."at the time appointed (or the appointed time")
- synonyms: decreed, ordained, prescribed
- Provided with furnishing and accessories (especially of a tasteful kind. )
- usage: "a house that is beautifully appointed"
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