<p><strong>Verb (used with object):</strong></p><ul><li>to name or assign to a position, an office, or the like; designate: to appoint a new treasurer; to appoint a judge to the bench</li><li>to determine by authority or agreement; fix; set: to appoint a time for the meeting</li><li>to designate (a person) to take the benefit of an estate created by a deed or will</li><li>to provide with what is necessary; equip; furnish: They appointed the house with all the latest devices</li><li>to order or establish by decree or command; ordain; constitute: laws appointed by God</li><li>to point at by way of censure (obsolete)</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object):</strong></p><ul><li>to ordain; resolve; determine (obsolete)</li></ul>