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单词 designment
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designmentn.

Brit. /dᵻˈzʌɪnm(ə)nt/, U.S. /dəˈzaɪnm(ə)nt/, /diˈzaɪnm(ə)nt/
Forms: see design v. and -ment suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: design v., -ment suffix.
Etymology: < design v. + -ment suffix. Compare earlier design n., designation n., designing n.
1. A drawing, sketch, or outline; the action or process of design v. 15a. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > artistically conceived design
device1399
designment1570
designc1660
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation
ylikenesseOE
likenessOE
anlikenessOE
ylikeOE
imagec1300
acornc1388
portraiturea1393
resemblancea1393
semblanta1400
counterfeitc1400
shapec1400
statuec1405
representation1477
presentationa1513
presentment1535
effigy1539
porture1542
express1553
effigium1564
representance1565
designment1570
icon1572
mimesisa1586
effigies1615
expressurea1616
represent1615
signature1618
proportion1678
representative1766
rendering1825
buggerlugs1839
effigiation1876
1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. aj Of all these, liuely designementes..to be in velame parchement described.
1667 J. Dryden Ess. Dramatic Poesie 59 Shall that excuse the ill Painture or designment of them.
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 85 A neat and full Expression of the 1st Idea or Designment thereof.
2. An aim, intention, plan; (in negative sense) a scheme, plot. As a mass noun: planning or arrangement of affairs; scheming. Now rare.
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the mind > will > intention > planning > [noun] > premeditation
aforethoughta1400
forethoughta1400
premeditation?a1475
designment1570
preconsideration1593
predeliberationa1631
fore-plot1641
premeditatedness1659
design1665
precausation1670
contrivance1695
preconfiguration1830
precontrivance1832
designfulness1867
1570 Ld. Morley Let. 3 Sept. in S. Haynes Coll. State Papers Ld. Burghley (1740) 605 I have sought what I coulde to learne of my Ladye hyr Dissignments [1883 Cal. MSS. Marquis of Salisbury dissignmentes].
1583 S. Harsnett Serm. Ezek. (1658) 135 Had he had freedome to haue altered Gods Designment, Adams liberty had bene aboue the designment of God.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. i. 22 The desperate Tempest hath so bang'd the Turke, That their designement halts. View more context for this quotation
1660 R. Allestree Gentlemans Calling 147 Many hours..intervening between the designment and the execution [of a Duel].
1738 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses I. 216 A strange Jumble as well as Iniquity in this Designment.
1835 D. P. Thompson Adventures Timothy Peacock xii. 135 ‘I will make the endeavor of a beginning,’ replied our hero, ‘If you really think that the most feasible designment.’
1888 Vermont Watchman 9 May 3/1 Can it be the designment of nature that we should be patronizers of idleness?
1907 M. R. Hemiup Our World xxvii. 125 Ashes, pumice stone and a vast quantity of other material that must be adjusted and removed from the earth's machinery to its place of natural designment.
3.
a. Appointment or nomination to a particular office or function; consignment to a fate; = designation n. 4a. Obsolete.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > [noun] > nomination to office
namingc1300
nomination1430
designment1582
nominatinga1599
designation1605
nominature1864
1582 Bible (Rheims) Luke vi. 12 Annot., As a preparation to the designement of his Apostles.
1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus i. 7 Designements to offices and places.
1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy (1647) 93 Paul & Barnabas..went to the Gentiles, by..speciall designement made at Antioch.
1668 H. More Two Last Dialogues iv. xviii. 73 No designment of them to sin and damnation.
1729 W. Law Serious Call xxii. 450 This is as certain, as that it is by the express designment of God, that some beings are Angels, and others are men.
b. Indication of a particular person or thing by words or signs; = designation n. 1a. Obsolete.
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society > communication > indication > designation > [noun]
designationa1398
consignment1563
designment1635
1635 A. Gil Sacred Philos. Holy Script. ii. xxiv. 157 No Scripture is so direct..as this for the certaine designement of the time.
a1684 R. Leighton Pract. Comm. 1st Epist. Peter (1693) I. 374 The them that are sent..is a very clear designment of the inferiour Governours of those times.
1707 R. Farington Relig. Many of Clergy in Church Eng. 34 There can be no clearer designment of Persons than by their Names.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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