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designed, ppl. a.|dɪˈzaɪnd|
[f. design v. + -ed.]
†a. Marked out, appointed, designate.
b. Planned, purposed, intended.
c. Drawn, outlined; formed, fashioned, or framed according to design.
a.1609Bible (Douay) Num. viii. Comm., Their designed offices. 1622Bacon Hen. VII, Wks. (1860) 331 His two designed generals. 1701W. Wotton Hist. Rome ii. 28 He was designed Consul for next Year. 1751Chambers Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Bishop, Bishop designed, episcopus designatus.
b.1586B. Young Guazzo's Civ. Conv. iv. 180 b, Fortifying my designed purpose. 1660Barrow Euclid Pref. (1714) 3 A Size beyond the design'd Proportion. 1717Lady M. W. Montagu Lett. 1 Jan. (1887) I. 139 Making my designed return a mystery. 1865Mozley Mirac. vii. 291 note, That this failure..should be designed.
c.1870Emerson Soc. & Solit., Art Wks. (Bohn) III. 16 An oak-tree..being the form in nature best designed to resist a constant assailing force.
† to be designed, to be purposed or minded: see design v. 9. |