appointive

English

Etymology

appoint +‎ -ive

Adjective

appointive

1. Of, pertaining to, or filled by appointment.

   Antonym: elective

   • 1871, Protest of the Cherokee Nation against a Territorial Government, Washington, D.C., p. 8,^[1]

     The constitution adopted at Oakmulgee provides for […] the machinery of government in which the governor and legislature are elective by the people. The judges are appointive by the governor […]

   • 1898, Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Uncalled, Toronto: George N. Morang, Chapter 12, p. 164,^[2]

     “It will be kind of nice, a year before your time, to be standing in the way of any appointive plums that may happen to fall […] ”

   • 1961, Bernard Malamud, A New Life, Penguin, 1968, p. 109,^[3]

     ‘It was an appointive job at one time but may not be now. […] Well, whatever the method is, appointive or elective, I have my dough on Gerald. He’s the logical choice.’