Meaning

verb create and charge with a task or function

verb assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to

verb furnish

originFrom Middle English apointen, borrowed from Old French apointier (“to prepare, arrange, lean, place”) (French appointer (“to give a salary, refer a cause”)), from Late Latin appunctō (“to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement”); Latin ad + punctum (“a point”). See point.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0