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A promise to be somewhere, later betrayed by traffic.
means A scheduled meeting at a fixed time, or the act of naming someone to a job or position.
from From French appointer, 'to come to an agreement or settle a matter,' built on Latin ad- ('to') plus punctum ('point') — literally to bring something to a point. The sense split in two useful directions: fixing a point in time (a meeting) and fixing a point in rank (naming someone to office), both senses riding the same idea of pinning something down precisely.
- origin
- from Latin appunctuare, to fix a point
- doctor's version
- means wait exactly 45 minutes
- calendar app
- turns dread into a colored block
- royal sense
- once meant being named to office