Meanings
- not comparableSubject to appointment, as opposed to an election.
In the United States, the Secretary of State is an appointed position.
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of appoint.
One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivesubject to appointment
adjectiveselected for a job
adjectivefixed or established especially by order or command
adjectiveprovided with furnishing and accessories (especially of a tasteful kind)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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