appointed
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appointed (not comparable)
- (of a politician or a title) Subject to appointment, as opposed to an election.
- In the United States, the Secretary of State is an appointed position.
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appointed
- simple past tense and past participle of appoint.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
- One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”