To place (a person) in an office, appoint to a certain function or to perform a certain duty; to appoint (an official). Obsolete.

transitive. To appoint, constitute.

To appoint, designate, ordain, depute (a person) for an office, duty, or fate. Obsolete except in Law.

To set (a person) in office; to appoint. Obsolete.

To establish, install or secure in a possession, office, or dignity, etc.

transitive. To appoint (a person, etc.) to a duty, position, or responsibility (occasionally with the name of the position or duty as complement). Obs…

transitive. = institute, v.

transitive. To install or appoint (a person) as the occupant of a particular office or position, to fulfil a particular function, etc.

transitive. To appoint (a person) to an office; to prescribe (a penalty) upon or for someone; to appoint, direct (a person to do something). Obsolete.

transitive. To appoint; to fix, determine (a time or place); to employ, nominate (a person) to an office; to arrange, ordain, decree.

To set (a person, etc.) permanently in an office, dignity, or condition.

To establish in an office, charge, or position; to appoint; now, only, to place in a spiritual charge; ‘to invest with the spiritual part of a…

transitive. To install (a person) in an office, rank, etc., or to confer an honour or dignity upon (a person), esp. in a formal rite or ceremony…

To adopt, choose, elect, to some position. (So in Latin.) Often with the idea of elevation; cf. assumption, n. 2. Obsolete.

To supply with as much as can be held or contained; to put or pour something into (a receptacle) till… Phrases: †to fill the hands of (a Hebraism)…

To place in a secure or permanent position; to install and secure in a possession, office, dignity, etc.; to ‘set up’ (a person, oneself) in…

To secure or confirm (a person) in a position of authority, an office; to install permanently, establish in an office, an employment.

To ordain or nominate a person to an office, or to perform functions.

transitive. To appoint or assign to a post or office; (Christian Church) to appoint to a benefice or living.

To elect or elevate to office; = assume, v. 2.

To place in a particular employment, situation or condition; to assign, appoint. Obsolete.

transitive. To cause or enable to sit in or on a throne, chair of state or office, or other seat of authority or dignity. Hence, to establish (a…

transitive. To establish, install (a person) in an office, position, etc.; to vest (a person) in a right or power. Obsolete.

transitive. To put (a person) into a certain state or condition; to place in a certain position; to install, establish. Const. in (into, to).

To introduce, place (a person) in a position or station. Obsolete.

transitive. To appoint to, or place in, office. Obsolete. rare.

To set up (in an office or position of authority). Obsolete (cf. 2.)

To place in command or office; to appoint or set up authoritatively. Now rare or Obsolete except as associated with 4.

To appoint (to a vacancy). (So in Old French.) Obsolete.

By extension: To place in any office or position, esp. one of dignity or authority; to establish in any place or condition.

To appoint to or nominate for a position.

transitive. To mark or indicate by a prick or tick; esp. to score through or put a mark against (an item on a list); to mark down, tick off. Also…