Dated and Appointment

verb

• Go on a date with.
  • usage: "Tonight she is dating a former high school sweetheart"
  • synonyms: date
• Stamp with a date.
  • usage: "The package is dated November 24"
  • synonyms: date, date stamp
• Assign a date to; determine the (probable) date of.
  • usage: "Scientists often cannot date precisely archeological or prehistorical findings"
  • synonyms: date
• Date regularly; have a steady relationship with.
  • usage: "Did you know that she is seeing an older man"; "He is dating his former wife again"
  • synonyms: go steady, go out, date, see
• Provide with a dateline; mark with a date.
  • usage: "She wrote the letter on Monday but she dated it Saturday so as not to reveal that she procrastinated"
  • synonyms: date

adjective

• Marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past. .

noun

• The act of putting a person into a non-elective position.
  • usage: "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee"
  • synonyms: assignment, designation, naming
• A meeting arranged in advance.
  • usage: "she asked how to avoid kissing at the end of a date"
  • synonyms: date, engagement
• Usually plural. ( furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel))
  • synonyms: fitting
• A person who is appointed to a job or position.
  • synonyms: appointee
• The job to which you are (or hope to be) appointed.
  • usage: "he applied for an appointment in the treasury"
• Law) the act of disposing of property by virtue of the power of appointment. (
  • usage: "she allocated part of the trust to her church by appointment"

• (n.) 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.
• (n.) A honorary part or exercise, as an oration, etc., at a public exhibition of a college; as, to have an appointment.
• (n.) Stipulation; agreement; the act of fixing by mutual agreement. Hence:: Arrangement for a meeting; engagement; as, they made an appointment to meet at six.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) The state of being appointed to som/ service or office; an office to which one is appointed; station; position; an, the appointment of treasurer.
• (n.) An allowance to a person, especially to a public officer; a perquisite; -- properly only in the plural.
• (n.) Decree; direction; established order or constitution; as, to submit to the divine appointments.
• (n.) Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever is appointed for use and management; outfit; (pl.) the accouterments of military officers or soldiers, as belts, sashes, swords.

Appointment is the act of designating, or the acquisition of some, responsibility or position. For example, the Court can appoint a Trustee in Bankruptcy as Receiver of some property.