Definición de «appoint» en inglés

verb

1. (transitive) To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting itself) by authority or agreement.

2. (transitive) To name (someone to a post or role).

3. (transitive) To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out.

4. (transitive) To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).

5. (transitive, law) To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).

   • If the donee of a power appoint the fund to one of the objects of the power, under an understanding that the latter is to lend the fund to tho former, although on good security, the appointment is bad.

6. (obsolete, transitive) To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.

7. (obsolete, intransitive) To resolve; to determine; to ordain.

   • The day being very stormy, we were obliged to keep at home; which I much regretted, as it abridged my opportunity of seeing the Jewish synagogues, as we had appointed to do to-day.