Appointive is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.
You can make 374 anagrams from letters in appointive (aeiinopptv).
An Americanism dating back to 1880-85; appoint + -ive
Women are thus barred from every elective and appointive office, even that of notary public.
Office Holding: Women are eligible to all elective or appointive School offices except where it is forbidden by special charters.
This means that his office was appointive, and that he was a tithe-squeezer or tax-farmer.
Paterson—the father of recent Governor David Paterson—was a high-octane lawyer who held a number of appointive positions.
Even the men in the appointive offices did not venture to say he had much force.
They are also found as clerks, copyists and stenographers in the various elective and appointive State, city and county offices.
appointive positions, also, which women might legally hold are practically withheld from them because of their lack of the ballot.
Never was appointive officer so oblivious of facts in his reports to his superior, as was Carrington.
By the provisions of the law even the jury lists could be controlled by appointive officers.
Office Holding: Women are not eligible to any office, elective or appointive, except that they may serve as notaries public.
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