| 单词 | by design |
| 释义 | > as lemmasby (also out of, †on, †upon) design P1. by (also out of, †on, †upon) design: on purpose, deliberately, intentionally; frequently contrasted with accident n. 7. [After Middle French, French par dessein (1592 in the passage translated in quot. 1603), perhaps itself after Italian per disegno (a1566). Compare Italian a disegno (1603).] ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > [adverb] willesOE with one's willc1175 willes and waldesc1225 adviselya1325 wittinglya1340 wilfullyc1374 witting1377 a-purposea1382 of purpose (also (out) of (a) (set) purpose)a1382 wilfulc1381 willingly1402 of intention1430 knowingly1435 advisedlyc1449 deliberately1471 purpensely1472 purposely1495 prepensedly1496 purpensedly1496 purposedlya1540 proposely?1550 studiously1567 on (also upon) purpose1569 on set purpose1569 of industry1575 affectedly1582 premeditatelya1595 deliberatively1598 consultively1599 intentionallya1673 affectionally1603 by (also out of, on, upon) design1603 intentionately1609 industriouslya1616 perpensedly1624 intendedlya1641 unspontaneously1640 industrously1643 consultedly1645 consideringly1647 designedly1652 premeditatedly1653 wittily1653 intendingly1678 premeditatinglya1679 self-consciously1685 propensely1694 thinkingly1705 accidentally on purpose1711 affectionatelya1716 prepensely?1725 systematically1744 advertently1745 systemically1761 reflectively1775 purposefullya1854 meaningly1867 aimfully1870 purposively1878 designingly1879 proposedly1887 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xl. 127 The greatest number of Philosophers are found to have either by designe [Fr. par dessein] prevented, or hastned and furthered their deaths. 1628 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Peloponnesian War (1822) 65 The man being upon design gone..into Sanctuary. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. xii. 261 On design to extirpate all the smiths in Israel. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 141 Either out of Design, or Simplicity. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. Pref. 4 I have on design avoided all laboured periods. 1769 Junius Lett. (1771) I. xiii. 65 It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake. 1816 Monthly Repos. Sept. 528/1 No man by design injures his circumstances, few by design injure their health. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. App. 627 William, whether by accident or by design, was not admitted. 1879 Sabbath School Mag. 1 Jan. 14 All this was done on design. 1930 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 35 1109 Whether by design, or unconsciously, Park has not touched..on the use of the life-history procedure as an instrument of natural science. 1983 A. Alland Playing with Form 192 Young children often produce effective representations..of human beings by accident rather than by design. 2003 N. Atkin Forgotten French i. 15 Most had come to Britain not out of design..but by chance. < as lemmas |
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