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<i>Dryden.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.</def>

<blockquote>We shall see Justice <b>design</b> the victor's chivalry. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Meet me to-morrow where the master And this fraternity shall <b>design</b>. <i>Beau. & Fl.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To create or produce, as a work of art; to form a plan or scheme of; to form in idea; to invent; to project; to lay out in the mind; <as>as, a man <ex>designs</ex> an essay, a poem, a statue, or a cathedral</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To intend or purpose; -- usually with <i>for</i> before the remote object, but sometimes with <i>to</i>.</def>

<blockquote>Ask of politicians the end for which laws were originally <b>designed</b>. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He was <b>designed</b> to the study of the law. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To sketch; plan; purpose; intend; propose; project; mean.</syn>

<h1>Design</h1> <Xpage=397>

<hw>De*sign"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To form a design or designs; to plan.</def>

<cs><col>Design for</col>, <cd>to intend to go to. <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "From this city she <i>designed for<i> Collin [Cologne]."</cd></cs>

<i>Evelyn.</i>

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<h1>Design</h1> <Xpage=398>

<hw>De*sign"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <ets>dessein</ets>, <ets>dessin</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A preliminary sketch; an outline or pattern of the main features of something to be executed, as of a picture, a building, or a decoration; a delineation; a plan.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A plan or scheme formed in the mind of something to be done; preliminary conception; idea intended to be expressed in a visible form or carried into action; intention; purpose; -- often used in a bad sense for evil intention or purpose; scheme; plot.</def>

<blockquote>The vast <b>design</b> and purpos<?/ of the King. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The leaders of that assembly who withstood the <b>designs</b> of a besotted woman. <i>Hallam.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A . . . settled <b>design</b> upon another man's life. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>How little he could guess the secret <b>designs</b> of the court! <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end; <as>as, the argument from <ex>design</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The realization of an inventive or decorative plan; esp., a work of decorative art considered as a new creation; conception or plan shown in completed work; <as>as, this carved panel is a fine <ex>design</ex>, or of a fine <ex>design</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole.</def>

<cs><col>Arts of design</col>, <cd>those into which the designing of artistic forms and figures enters as a principal part, as architecture, painting, engraving, sculpture.</cd> -- <col>School of design</col>, <cd>one in which are taught the invention and delineation of artistic or decorative figures, patterns, and the like.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Intention; purpose; scheme; project; plan; idea.</syn> <usage> -- <er>Design</er>, <er>Intention</er>, <er>Purpose</er>. <i>Design</i> has reference to something definitely aimed at. <i>Intention</i> points to the feelings or desires with which a thing is sought. <i>Purpose has</i> reference to a settled choice or determination for its attainment. "I had no <i>design</i> to injure you," means it was no part of my aim or object. "I had no <i>intention</i> to injure you," means, I had no wish or desire of that kind. "My <i>purpose</i> was directly the reverse," makes the case still stronger.</usage>

<blockquote>Is he a prudent man . . . that lays <b>designs</b> only for a day, without any prospect to the remaining part of his life? <i>Tillotson.</i></blockquote>