appoint

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To select or designate to fill an office or a position: appointed her the chief operating officer of the company.
2. v. To fix or set by authority or by mutual agreement: will appoint a date for the examination.
3. v. To furnish; equip: a house that is comfortably appointed.
4. v. Law To direct the disposition of (property) to a person or persons in exercise of a power granted for this purpose by a preceding deed.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. . To make fast or firm; found; establish; secure.
2. To constitute, ordain, or fix by decree, order, or decision; decree; command; prescribe.
3. To allot, set apart, or designate; nominate or authoritatively assign, as for a use, or to a post or office.
4. To settle; fix, name, or determine by authority or upon agreement: as, they appointed a time and place for the meeting.
5. In law, to fix the destination of (property) by designating a person or persons to take the use of an estate created by a preceding deed or will, conferring on the appointor the power so to do. Thus, a testator may give a fund to a child for life, with power to appoint the fund to one or more grandchildren. The donee of the power is the appointor, and those designated by the appointor to enjoy the fund are termed the appointees.
6. . To point at by way of censure; arraign: as, “appoint not heavenly disposition,” Milton, S. A., 1. 373.
7. To provide with what is requisite; equip.
8. To agree upon; decide upon or settle definitely.
9. Synonyms To prescribe, establish, direct. To assign, destine, constitute, create. To furnish, supply.
10. To ordain; resolve; determine.
11. In law, to exercise a power of appointment.

Wiktionary

1. v. : To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
2. v. : To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of.
3. v. : To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.
4. v. : To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.
5. v. , (Law): To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance;—said of an estate already conveyed. --Alexander Mansfield Burrill. Kent.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
2. v. To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of.
3. v. To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.
4. v. To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.
5. v. To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign.
6. v. To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed.
7. v. To ordain; to determine; to arrange.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to
2. v. furnish.
3. v. create and charge with a task or function