To fix, settle, determine, or authoritatively appoint (a time or temporal limit).

transitive. To determine authoritatively, prescribe, fix (a time, later a place) for any act.

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

transitive. Scottish. To appoint (a term, a time of payment, etc.), esp. by statute. Obsolete.