society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > appointment to rank > appoint to rank [verb (transitive)] (14)
transitive. = commission, v. (in various senses).
To enter on the list of a military body; to appoint formally (an officer); also in passive with complement, to be appointed or ‘gazetted’ as…
transitive. spec. To appoint (a person) to the rank of officer in a military force. Cf. commission, n.1 1b.