"appointive" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1871, Protest of the Cherokee Nation against a Territorial Government, Washington, D.C., page 8:",
          "text": "The constitution adopted at Oakmulgee provides for […] the machinery of government in which the governor and legislature are elective by the people. The judges are appointive by the governor […]",
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          "ref": "1898, Paul Laurence Dunbar, chapter XII, in The Uncalled: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 164:",
          "text": "It will be kind of nice, a year before your time, to be standing in the way of any appointive plums that may happen to fall; […]",
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          "ref": "1961, Bernard Malamud, A New Life, Penguin, published 1968, page 109:",
          "text": "‘It was an appointive job at one time but may not be now. […] Well, whatever the method is, appointive or elective, I have my dough on Gerald. He’s the logical choice.’",
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        "Of, pertaining to, or filled by appointment."
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          "ref": "1871, Protest of the Cherokee Nation against a Territorial Government, Washington, D.C., page 8:",
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          "text": "‘It was an appointive job at one time but may not be now. […] Well, whatever the method is, appointive or elective, I have my dough on Gerald. He’s the logical choice.’",
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        "Of, pertaining to, or filled by appointment."
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