Word Meanings - PERFIX - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To fix surely; to appoint.
Related words: (words related to PERFIX)
- APPOINTER
One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent. - APPOINTMENT
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. 6. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever - APPOINTOR
The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2. - APPOINTIVE
Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office. - APPOINT
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. Burrill. Kent. To appoint one's self, to resolve. Crowley. (more info) prepare, - APPOINTABLE
Capable of being appointed or constituted. - SURELY
1. In a sure or certain manner; certainly; infallibly; undoubtedly; assuredly. In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. Gen. ii. - APPOINTEE
A person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed. Kent. Wharton. (more info) 1. A person appointed. The commission authorizes them to make appointments, and pay the appointees. Circular of Mass. Representatives . - REAPPOINT
To appoint again. - PREAPPOINTMENT
Previous appointment. - PREAPPOINT
To appoint previously, or beforehand. Carlyle. - LEISURELY
Characterized by leisure; taking abundant tome; not hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk. - DISAPPOINTMENT
1. The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration. If we hope for things of which we have not thoroughly considered the value, our disappointment - REAPPOINTMENT
The act of reappointing, or the state of being reappointed. - DISAPPOINTED
1. Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope. 2. Unprepared; unequipped. Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled. Shak. - FOREAPPOINTMENT
Previous appointment; preordinantion. Sherwood. - DISAPPOINT
1. To defeat of expectation or hope; to hinder from the attainment of that which was excepted, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions, expectations, or plans - FOREAPPOINT
To set, order, or appoint, beforehand. Sherwood. - NONAPPOINTMENT
Neglect of making appointment; failure to receive an appointment.