APPOINTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does appointed mean? 

• APPOINTED (adjective)
  The adjective APPOINTED has 4 senses:

1. subject to appointment

2. selected for a job

3. fixed or established especially by order or command

4. provided with furnishing and accessories (especially of a tasteful kind)

  Familiarity information: APPOINTED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPOINTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Subject to appointment

Synonyms:

appointed; appointive

Similar:

nominated; nominative (appointed by nomination)

non-elective; nonelected; nonelective (filled by appointment rather than by election)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Selected for a job

Context example:

the one appointed for guard duty

Similar:

assigned (appointed to a post or duty)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Fixed or established especially by order or command

Synonyms:

appointed; decreed; ordained; prescribed

Context example:

at the time appointed (or the appointed time)

Similar:

settled (established or decided beyond dispute or doubt)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Provided with furnishing and accessories (especially of a tasteful kind)

Context example:

a house that is beautifully appointed

Similar:

equipped; furnished (provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority))

 Context examples 

Our visitors arrived at the appointed time, but it was a quarter to four before my friend put in an appearance.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the appointed day—I think it was the next day, but no matter—Traddles and I repaired to the prison where Mr. Creakle was powerful.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As it drew towards the appointed hour, he went outside into the garden and mounted the tan-heap to await the raven.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

A person appointed or elected to represent others.

(Delegate, NCI Thesaurus)

A person appointed by the company to speak on its behalf and/or to provide defined service and work.

(Company Representative, NCI Thesaurus)

A person who is an assistant or subordinate to another professional, e.g. research associate functioning under the general supervision of the appointed investigator.

(Associate, NCI Thesaurus)

I hold that the more arid and unreclaimed the soil where the Christian labourer's task of tillage is appointed him—the scantier the meed his toil brings—the higher the honour.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Susan, who had an innate taste for the genteel and well-appointed, was eager to hear, and Fanny could not but indulge herself in dwelling on so beloved a theme.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Willing therefore to delay the evil hour, she resolved to wait till her sister's health were more secure, before she appointed it.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Breakfast had not been long over, when they were joined by Captain and Mrs Harville and Captain Benwick; with whom they had appointed to take their last walk about Lyme.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)