Verb
To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
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.
To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.
To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.
To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign.
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.
To ordain; to determine; to arrange.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWe hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. Aesop
In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function. Edmund Burke
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel. Karel Čapek
If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes. Ross Perot
These Gentlemen must be told, that they take too much upon themselves when they pretend to appoint how far and no farther Men shall go in their Searches, and to set bounds to other Mens Industry; as if they knew the Marks that God has placed to Knowledge... Christiaan Huygens
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission. Shirley Chisholm