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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of appoint.

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appoint +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • Now Allah, the Decreer who decreeth all things and who for every effect appointeth a cause, had so disposed that the Caliph was at that moment sitting in the light of the moon at one of the windows of his palace overlooking the Tigris.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And therefore when the sovereign of a Commonwealth appointeth a salary to any public office, he that receiveth it is bound in justice to perform his office; otherwise, he is bound only in honour to acknowledgement and an endeavour of requital.

    Leviathan 2007

  • To look upon them, and therein to behold the wondrous works of God, and learn to fear Him, is allowed; but to interpret them, that is, to pry into what God saith to him whom He appointeth to govern under Him, and make themselves judges whether he govern as God commandeth him, or not, is to transgress the bounds God hath set us, and to gaze upon God irreverently.

    Leviathan 2007

  • And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Also he himselfe appointeth to his dukes where they should inhabite.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • Also he himselfe appointeth to his dukes where they should inhabite.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • For he appointeth other for that seruice, as occasion doth require, as before was sayd.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Captaines of the Islandes, to whom hee giueth their charge, as also appointeth the Subbasses, Bayliffes or Constables ouer Cities and

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • The gouernour appointeth him a horse, and one to ride before him on another horse, bearing a sword in his hand, and the Busorman bearing an arrow in his hand, and rideth in the citie, cursing his father and mother: and if euer after he returne to his owne religion, he is guiltie of death, as is signified by the sword borne before him.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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