Word Meanings - PREAPPOINT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To appoint previously, or beforehand. Carlyle.

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• 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,
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• PREVIOUSLY
  Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed.
• APPOINTABLE
  Capable of being appointed or constituted.
• 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.
• 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.