Definition of "appointive"

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 […]

1871, Protest of the Cherokee Nation against a Territorial Government‎, Washington, D.C., page 8

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; […]

1898, Paul Laurence Dunbar, chapter XII, in The Uncalled: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, page 164

‘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.’

1961, Bernard Malamud, A New Life‎, Penguin, published 1968, page 109