APPOINTIVE • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Appointive

... sense, as Garfield had been, the man who succeeded him was immeasurably more so. Chester Alan Arthur was a successful New York lawyer, who had dabbled in politics and held some minor appointive offices, his selection as Vice-President being due to the desire of the Republican managers to throw a sop to the Empire State. His administration, however, while marked by no great or stirring event, was for the most part wise and conservative, but James G. Blaine had by ...

— American Men of Action • Burton E. Stevenson

... detectives learn the names of the thirty-seven men who have been added to the committee by the appointive power of the chairman. It is also ascertained that the forty men are still in the city ...

— The Transgressors - Story of a Great Sin • Francis A. Adams