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English
Etymology
From appoint + -ive.
Adjective
appointive
- Of, pertaining to, or filled by appointment.
- Antonym: elective
1871, Protest of the Cherokee Nation against a Territorial Government, Washington, D.C., page 8:The constitution adopted at Oakmulgee provides for the machinery of government in which the governor and legislature are elective by the people. The judges are appointive by the governor
1898, Paul Laurence Dunbar, chapter XII, in The Uncalled: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 164:It will be kind of nice, a year before your time, to be standing in the way of any appointive plums that may happen to fall;
1961, Bernard Malamud, A New Life, Penguin, published 1968, page 109:‘It was an appointive job at one time but may not be now. Well, whatever the method is, appointive or elective, I have my dough on Gerald. He’s the logical choice.’