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appointee|əˌpɔɪnˈtiː|
[f. appoint v. + -ee, after F. appointé.]
1. a. gen. One who is appointed or nominated to an office. b. in Law, One in whose favour a power of appointment is executed: see appointment 7.
1768Circular Mass. Repr. (Webster) The commission authorizes them to make appointments, and pay the appointees. 1768Blackstone Comm. ii. xxxii, The ordinary of courts grants administration to such appointee of the crown. 1829Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 40 The people's king flew back to his throne without a sword being drawn for the foreign appointee.
†2. Mil. [appointé in Cotgr.]
1727–51Chambers Cycl., Appointee, a foot-soldier in the French army, etc., who for his long service..receives pay above private sentinels. 1753― Cycl. Supp., These have been suppressed in France, except in the..guards where forty Appointees are still retained to each company. |