APPOINT Copy link • APPOINTfix, statuere, constituere: destinare (fix, determine): designare (mark out). (The words are found in this connection and order), constituere et designare: dicere (say, fix, by word of mouth): eligere (choose; fix upon by choice): finire, definire (fix by assigning the limits; hence declare, fix. So circumscribere): convenit inter nos (seldom convenimus inter nos: we agree together, etc.). To appoint a day, diem statuere, constituere, dicere, eligere: beforehand, diem praestituere, praefinire: to appoint a time, tempus dicere, destinare: to appoint a time for the assault, adeundi (scilicet, castra) tempus de finire: to appoint time and place, tempus et locum condicere: to appoint a pretty distant day, diem satis laxam statuere: to appoint a day for the marriage, eligere nuptiarum diem; nuptias in diem constituere: a day for the execution, diem necis destinare alicui. To appoint a law, legem sancire. To appoint anybody wages, mercedem alicui constituere: a residence, circumscribere locum habitan di alicui: the bounds of his kingdom, terminare fines imperii. To appoint anybody one’s heir, aliquem heredem instituere; aliquem heredem testamento scribere, fecere; aliquem heredem nuncupare (i. e., to name him as such before witnesses). To appoint anybody (king, etc.), constituere aliquem (regem, etc): to appoint anybody the keeper of another, apponere aliquem custodem alicujus: to appoint any body the guardian of another, tutorem aliquem alicui constituere (of a prince): testamento aliquem alicui tutorem instituere (of a father appointing by will). Sometimes negotium alicui dare, ut, etc. To appoint anybody to an office, constituere aliquem alicui munere: praeficere or praeponere aliquem muneri; mandare or deferre alicui munus: to appoint any body to succeed to another, aliquem in alicujus locum substituere (general term); aliquem in alicujus locum subrogare, sufficere (to choose anybody to succeed another who had died before the expiration of his office, etc.: subrogare of the proposer, sufficere of the people). To appoint anybody or anything to or for anybody or anything, destinare alicuialiquid or aliquem (e.g., aliquam viro uxorem). To appoint (= intend) anybody or anything to or far any office, fate, purpose, etc., destinare ad aliquid or alicui rei; designare ad aliquid (mark out for): seponere alicui rui or in aliquid (to set apart for). To be appointed (= destined to any thing by fate), alicui rei or ad rem natum esse: fato tieri aliquid.”It is appointed to all men once to die”, etc., ea lege or hoc fato nati sumus, ut, etc.; ita a natura generati sumus, ut, etc. Fix that a person should be present at such a time or place, aliquem adesse or venire jubere.”To appoint anybody to appear at Rome early in the following spring,” inito proximo vere Romae aliquem adesse jubere :”to appoint that a person should come back to one,” aliquem ad se reverti jubere: to appoint a place or time, condicere tempus et locum (coeundi, Justinus). Well appointed, instructus: omnibus rebus ornatus atque instructus. Vid: EQUIP.