appoint

  1. Verb.  (transitive) : To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
  2. Verb.  (transitive) : To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of.
  3. Verb.  (transitive) : To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.
  4. Verb.  (transitive) : To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.
  5. Verb.  (transitive) , ''(Law):'' To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance;—said of an estate already conveyed. --Alexander Mansfield Burrill. Kent.

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