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APPOINTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Subject to appointment
Synonyms:
appointed; appointive
Classified under:
Similar:
nominated; nominative (appointed by nomination)
non-elective; nonelected; nonelective (filled by appointment rather than by election)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Selected for a job
Example:
the one appointed for guard duty
Classified under:
Similar:
assigned (appointed to a post or duty)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Provided with furnishing and accessories (especially of a tasteful kind)
Example:
a house that is beautifully appointed
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
equipped; furnished (provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority))
Sense 4
Meaning:
Fixed or established especially by order or command
Example:
at the time appointed (or the appointed time)
Synonyms:
appointed; decreed; ordained; prescribed
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
settled (established or decided beyond dispute or doubt)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb appoint
Context examples:
Dr. Seward and Mr. Morris have half a dozen good horses, well appointed.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Ad hoc "think tanks" appointed to address key scientific issues.
(Director's Working Group, NCI Thesaurus)
And so it rowels me awake until the appointed time.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
No additional agitation should be thrown at this period among those she loved—and the evil should not act on herself by anticipation before the appointed time.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Regularly, each morning after he had finished his breakfast, she performed her self-appointed task, till he came to look for her ministrations as much as he did for Thornton’s.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
She dropped in alongside by him, as though it were her appointed position, and took the pace of the pack.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Now your honour is to know, that these judges are persons appointed to decide all controversies of property, as well as for the trial of criminals, and picked out from the most dexterous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy; and having been biassed all their lives against truth and equity, lie under such a fatal necessity of favouring fraud, perjury, and oppression, that I have known some of them refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty, by doing any thing unbecoming their nature or their office.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
An authorized person who is appointed to audit and officially inspect the warehousing, prescribing, dispensing, distribution, administration and documentation practices related to utilization of investigational agent(s) within a clinical study or/and institution, in order to confirm the strict drug(s) accountability and to ensure patients safety and the clinical site compliance with protocol(s) and federal drug laws and regulations.
(Agent Inspector, NCI Thesaurus)
It was the second week in May, in which the three young ladies set out together from Gracechurch Street for the town of —, in Hertfordshire; and, as they drew near the appointed inn where Mr. Bennet's carriage was to meet them, they quickly perceived, in token of the coachman's punctuality, both Kitty and Lydia looking out of a dining-room up stairs.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
He had himself been appointed to the Cato, 64, with post rank, whilst a note had come from Lord Nelson at Portsmouth to say that a vacancy was open for me if I should present myself at once.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
