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To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out. When he appointed the foundations of the earth. Prov. viii. 29.

One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.

The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.

One who apportions.

Capable of being apposed, or applied one to another, as the thumb to the fingers of the hand.

To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another). The nymph herself did then appose, For food and beverage, to him all best meat. Chapman.

An examiner; one whose business is to put questions. Formerly, in the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts.

The act of adding; application; accretion. It grows . . . by the apposition of new matter. Arbuthnot.

One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.

To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value. To appreciate the motives of their enemies. Gibbon.

One who appreciates.

One who apprehends.

One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.

The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.

dvance nearer. Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city 2 Sam. xi. 20. But exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Heb. x. 25.

One who approaches.

The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.

To express approbation of; to approve; to sanction officially. I approbate the one, I reprobate the other. Sir W. Hamilton.

Proof; attestation. [Obs.] Shak.

One who approves. [R.]