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Appoint

/əˈpɔɪnt/
To choose someone for a position or a job.

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Examples:

And so it rowels me awake until the appointed time.

And after that Mr. Rastrick seemed to appoint himself captain.

They were a committee appointed to gather further information.

Etymology:

etymology
Middle English: from Old French apointer, meaning ‘to arrange, settle’, derived from the Vulgar Latin appunctare ‘to bring agreement to’ or ‘to bring to a point’.

Usage Statistics:

22 mentions per 1 million words Frequency
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