Definition of appointment

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Appointment (n.) An allowance to a person, esp. to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural..

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Positive :: Positive (a.) Prescribed by express enactment or institution; settled by arbitrary appointment; said of laws.
Appointment :: Appointment (n.) The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men..
Huff :: Huff (n.) A swell of sudden anger or arrogance; a fit of disappointment and petulance or anger; a rage.
Jeremiade :: "Jeremiade (n.) A tale of sorrow, disappointment, or complaint; a doleful story; a dolorous tirade; -- generally used satirically..
Try :: Try (v. t.) To strain; to subject to excessive tests; as, the light tries his eyes; repeated disappointments try one's patience..
Rendezvous :: Rendezvous (n.) A meeting by appointment.
Appointment :: Appointment (n.) The exercise of the power of designating (under a power of appointment) a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made..
Appointee :: Appointee (v. t.) A person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed.
Tryster :: Tryster (n.) One who makes an appointment, or tryst; one who meets with another..
Warrant :: Warrant (n.) An official certificate of appointment issued to an officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer. See Warrant officer, below..
Power :: Power (n.) An authority enabling a person to dispose of an interest vested either in himself or in another person; ownership by appointment.
Exact :: Exact (a.) Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact..
Sorrow :: Sorrow (n.) The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness..
Slate :: Slate (v. t.) To register (as on a slate and subject to revision), for an appointment..
Tryst :: Tryst (n.) An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst..
Fair :: Fair (n.) A gathering of buyers and sellers, assembled at a particular place with their merchandise at a stated or regular season, or by special appointment, for trade..
Cut :: Cut (v. t.) To absent one's self from; as, to cut an appointment, a recitation. etc..
Balk :: Balk (v. i.) A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
Appointive :: Appointive (a.) Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office..
Rue :: Rue (n.) Fig.: Bitterness; disappointment; grief; regret.
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