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

To impose a duty, task, or responsibility upon; to burden, entrust, commission with (of, obsolete).

transitive. To order or appoint (a person) to do some action or fulfil some role. Obsolete.

transitive. To give (a person) the power or authority to perform a duty or office; to appoint to carry out a task; to commission. Obsolete.

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 commission or appoint (a person) to carry out a task. Cf. commit, v. 1a.

To force, put, or set (a person) to a task; to impose a task on; to assign a definite amount of work to.

Const. to, with, with n. or infinitive. Often figurative.

To commission (a person) to do anything.

transferred.

to charge with a task.