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a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) viii. Prol. 12 I haf stablit myne entent Now to mak here apoyntment, Qwhen the Succession lynealle Endit.

?1440 A. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 26 Acordyng to poyntmen þat ye made.

1461 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 96 With-out agrement or a-poyntement taken.

1526 Acts James V (1814) 310 (Jam.) Ratifijs and appreuis the contract and appunctuament made.

1631 F. Quarles Hist. Samson 45 The long stay Betwixt th' appointment, and the mariage day.

1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. xvii. 281 The ordinary appointment of people to meet either at place or time.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxxxi. f. cv Delyuered y^e Cytie by appoyntement. That he with the people myght departe thens without bodely harme.

?a1521 R. Arnold Chron. (c1525) sig. Cii^v The kynge..lyed syege to the cyte of torney And wan it by poyntment.

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome iv. 326 Sic appunctment as the victoure plesis to gif.

1603–5 J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1735) 240 They would have taken any reasonable Appointment.

1533 J. Heywood Mery Play Iohan Iohan sig. B.i^v I and .ij. or thre Of my frendes made an appoyntement..That in a place we wolde sup together.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 42 With mee shee kept not apoinctment.

1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iii. i. 82 For missing your meetings and appointments.

1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. xvii. 281 A promise or appointment for a farther day.

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. viii. 65 Would you take a seat..while I look over our Appointment Book?

1879 Reade Drink I shall break an appointment.

1950 T. S. Eliot Cocktail Party ii. 91 The Nurse-Secretary enters, with Appointment Book.

a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. xvii. sig. L.ii^v The proude man himselfe, hath no certayn purpose or appointmente.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. xi. 8 Where their appointment we may best discouer, And looke on their endeuour. View more context for this quotation

c1440 Generydes 2100 These princes hadde vj thowsand knyghteȝ In ther poyntement.

1574 A. Golding tr. A. Marlorat Catholike Expos. Reuelation 15 All things are done and disposed by his determination and appoyntment.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 9 By Gods forwarned apoinctement.

1651 J. Saint-Amard tr. F. Micanzio Life Father Paul sig. O5^v Making one of his writers reade to him, or write at his appointment.

1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. i. 12 According to a natural Order or Appointment.

1833 H. Martineau Tale of Tyne iv. 67 The wind also failed,..a more merciful appointment than if it had blown a great storm.

1601 Act 43 Eliz. iv. §1 Such giftes, limitacions, assignements, and appoyntments.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 119 An appointment by tenant in tail of the lands entailed, to a charitable use.

1874 G. Farwell Powers 2 The ordinary power of appointment among children in a marriage settlement where personalty is vested in trustees.

1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. vii. 283 Powers of appointment, that is, conferring on a person a power of disposing of an interest in lands quite irrespective of the fact whether or not he has any interest in the land himself.

1658–9 Ld. Lambert in T. Burton Diary (1828) III. 333 By your appointment agree the Government. Then appoint officers.

1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. ii. iii. 342 The appointment of incompetent judges.

1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. ii. iii. 342 These appointments are made by the ministers of the Crown.

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. v. 33 He..settled it with himself..that he was errand-goer by appointment to the house at the corner.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. ii. 72 A poor baronet, hoping for an appointment.

1874 Davidson Concise Preced. 477 Appointment of new trustees of a will.

1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. I. iii. 426 His appointment to the lucrative office of Joint Vice-Treasurer of Ireland.

1962 Guardian 2 Dec. 12/1 A list of Royal Warrant holders..shows that only two firms are now permitted to style themselves ‘By Appointment to the late Queen Alexandra’.

?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 67 Hiz honorz exquisit appointment of a beautifull Garden.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. iii. 52 That from this Castels tottered battlements Our faire appointments may be well perusde. View more context for this quotation

1658 J. Evelyn Let. 8 Nov. in Diary & Corr. (1852) III. 106 To allow him [sc. his son] an appointment so noble and considerable, as does become his greatness.

1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xxii. 115 I have not one appointment belonging to me, which I set so much store by, as I do by these jack-boots.

1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry xxiv. 322 Royal blazonry upon the appointments as well of his horse as of his own person.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 366 He had the appointments of an Embassador.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Appointments differ from Wages, in that the latter are fixed and ordinary;..whereas Appointments are annual Gratifications granted by Brevet for a time uncertain, and are paid out of the Privy Purse.

1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas I. i. xvii. 89 His parents will turn thee away,..perhaps even without paying thy appointments.

1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xlviii. 330 The appointment of the stadt-holdership..is one hundred thousand guilders.