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- English Word Appointee Definition A person appointed.
- English Word Appointee Definition A person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed.
- English Word Appointer Definition One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment.
- English Word Appointing Definition of Appoint
- English Word Appointive Definition Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office.
- English Word Appointment Definition The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.
- English Word Appointment Definition The state of being appointed to som/ service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position; an, the appointment of treasurer.
- English Word Appointment Definition Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. Hence:: Arrangement for a meeting; engagement; as, they made an appointment to meet at six.
- English Word Appointment Definition Decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments.
- English Word Appointment Definition The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.
- English Word Appointment Definition Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever is appointed for use and management; outfit; (pl.) the accouterments of military officers or soldiers, as belts, sashes, swords.
- English Word Appointment Definition An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural.
- English Word Appointment Definition A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment.
- English Word Appointor Definition The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2.
- English Word Apporter Definition A bringer in; an importer.
- English Word Apportion Definition To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.
- English Word Apportionateness Definition The quality of being apportioned or in proportion.
- English Word Apportioned Definition of Apportion
- English Word Apportioner Definition One who apportions.
- English Word Apportioning Definition of Apportion
- English Word Apportionment Definition The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property.
- English Word Appose Definition To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).
- English Word Appose Definition To place in juxtaposition or proximity.
- English Word Appose Definition To put questions to; to examine; to try. [Obs.] See Pose.
- English Word Apposed Definition Placed in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles of a bird's beak.
- English Word Apposer Definition An examiner; one whose business is to put questions. Formerly, in the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts.
- English Word Apposite Definition Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case.
- English Word Apposition Definition The act of adding; application; accretion.
- English Word Apposition Definition The putting of things in juxtaposition, or side by side; also, the condition of being so placed.
- English Word Apposition Definition The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first.