appointive en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English appoint Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English appointive From appoint + -ive.
Meanings
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Of, pertaining to, or filled by appointment.
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 […]
1871, Protest of the Cherokee Nation against a Territorial Government, Washington, D.C., page 8:‘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.’
1961, Bernard Malamud, A New Life, Penguin, published 1968, page 109: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; […]
1898, Paul Laurence Dunbar, chapter XII, in The Uncalled: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 164: