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

ation. If we hope for things of which we have not thoroughly considered the value, our disappointment will be greater our pleasure in the fruition of them. Addison. In disappointment thou canst bless. Keble.

Previous appointment; preordinantion. Sherwood.

Neglect of making appointment; failure to receive an appointment.

Previous appointment.

The act of reappointing, or the state of being reappointed.

nnexed, administration granted where the testator has appointed no executor, or where his appointment of an executor for any cause has failed, as by death, incompetency, refusal to act, etc.

To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5.

A person appointed. The commission authorizes them to make appointments, and pay the appointees. Circular of Mass. Representatives (1768).

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

Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office. [R.]

igning or allotting; apportionment. This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces. Holland.

roperty; as, an assignee of a bankrupt. See Assignment (c). An assignee may be by special appointment or deed, or be created by jaw; as an executor. Cowell. Blount. (b) pl.

An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.

A hindrance or disappointment; a check. A balk to the confidence of the bold undertaker. South.

An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. "He has a good berth." Totten.

Eleemosynary appointments [grants or devises] including relief of the poor or friendless, education, religious culture, and public institutions. The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers. Wordsworth. Sisters of Charity (R. C. Ch.), a sisterhood of religious women enga…

methods for the spoils system in the conduct of the civil service, esp. in the matter of appointments to office. -- Civil state, the whole body of the laity or citizens not included under the military, maritime, and ecclesiastical states. -- Civil suit. Same as Civil action. -- CCivil war. See under War. -- Civil…

whom may be adherents of the same party, which has the control, through examinations, of appointments and promotions in the classified civil service. It was created by act of Jan, 16, 1883 (22 Stat. 403).

onduct of the civil service. esp. the merit system instead of the spoils system in making appointments to office.