[f. APPOINT v. + -EE, after F. appointé.]
1. a. gen. One who is appointed or nominated to an office. b. in Law, One in whose favor a power of appointment is executed: see APPOINTMENT 7.
1768. Circular Mass. Repr. (Webster). The commission authorizes them to make appointments, and pay the appointees.
1768. Blackstone, Comm., II. xxxii. The ordinary of courts grants administration to such appointee of the crown.
1829. Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc. (1842), I. 40. The people’s king flew back to his throne without a sword being drawn for the foreign appointee.
† 2. Mil. [appointé in Cotgr.]
1727–51. Chambers, Cycl., Appointee, a foot-soldier in the French army, etc., who for his long service … receives pay above private sentinels. Ibid. (1753), Cycl. Supp., These have been suppressed in France, except in the … guards where forty Appointees are still retained to each company.
