appointed
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
appointed (not comparable)
- (of a politician or a title) Subject to appointment, as opposed to an election.
- In the United States, the Secretary of State is an appointed position.
Hyponyms
Verb
appointed
- simple past and past participle of appoint.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 3, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- 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.”