appointive

English

Etymology

appoint +‎ -ive

Adjective

appointive

  1. Of, pertaining to, or filled by appointment.
    Antonym: elective
    • 1871, Protest of the Cherokee Nation against a Territorial Government, Washington, D.C., p. 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, The Uncalled, Toronto: George N. Morang, Chapter 12, p. 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, 1968, p. 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.’
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