单词 | designment |
释义 | designmentn.ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. a. Appointment or nomination to a particular office or function; consignment to a fate; = designation n. 4a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1570 |
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