design 
From this citty she designed for Collin [Cologne], con- 
ducted by the Earl of Arundell. 
Evelyn, Diary, Sept. 10, 1041. 
The venturous merchant who design' d more far ... 
Shall here unlade him, and depart no more. 
Drydf.n, Annus Miraliilis, 1. 1198. 
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sign, designate.] 1. Capable of being designed 
or marked out ; distinguishable. [Bare.] 
The desii/naUe parts of these corpuscles are therefore 
luuepanbte, because there is no vacuity at all intercepted 
between them. Boyle, Works, I. 413. 
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there we design d for Trinidada, au Island near the main, {(/Hated, ppr. designating. [< LJ. designatus, pp. 
inhabited by the Spaniards. Damper, Voyages, I. 57. ^ designare, design: see design, i'.] 1. To mark 
"- r ~" - r /VC1 ->-" -*">- out or indicate by visible lines, marks, descrip- 
tion, name, or something known and determi- 
nate : as, to designate the limits of a country ; to 
designate the spot where a star appears in the 
heavens ; to designa te the place where the troops 
landed, or shall land. 2. To point out; dis- 
tinguish from others by indication ; name; set- 
tle the identity of: as, to be able to designate 
every individual who was concerned in a riot 
design (de-zin' or -sin'), n. [= OF. dessein, des- 
seing, des'ing, F. dessein, design; from the verb.] 
1. A drawing, especially in outline or little 
more; any representation made with pencil, 
pen, or brush. 2. A plan or an outline in gen- 
eral; any representation or statement of the 
main parts or features of a projected tiring or 
act; specifically, in arch., a plan of an edihce, 
as represented by the ground-plans, elevations, 
sections, and whatever other drawings may be 
necessary to guide its construction. 
Internally the architect has complete command of the 
situation ; he can suit his tlexiyn to his colours, or his 
colours to his design. J. Fergusson, Hist. Arch., I. 35. 
3. Artistic invention in drawing or sculpture ; 
the practical application of artistic principles 
or exercise of artistic faculties ; the art of de- 
signing. 
Design is not the offspring of idle fancy ; it is the studied 
result of accumulative observation and delightful habit. 
Ituskin. 
4. The arrangement or combination of the de- 
tails of a picture, a statue, or an edifice. 
Silent light 
Slept on the painted walls, wherein were wrought 
Two grand designs. Tennyson, Princess, vn. 
Though great elegance is found in parts, Italy can 
hardly produce a single church which is satisfactory as a 
design, or which would be intelligible without first ex- 
3. To appoint ; select or distinguish for a 
desilverize 
Most of the Egyptians often lie designedly. 
J-:. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, I. 398. 
Art creates as imagination pictures, regularly without 
conscious law, designedly without conscious aim. 
Hclmholti, Sensations of Tone (trans.), p. 569. 
designedness (de-zi'- orde-si'ned-nes), it. The 
attribute or quality of being designed or in- 
tended; contrivance. Barrow. [Rare.] 
designer (de-zi'- or de-si'ner), . 1. One who 
designs, plans, or plots; one who frames a 
scheme or project ; a contriver. 
It has therefore always been both the rule and practice 
for such designers to suborn the publick interest, to coun- 
tenance and cover their private. Decay of Christian Piety. 
2. In manuf. and the fine arts, one who con- 
ceives or forms a design of any kind, including 
designs for decorative work ; one who invents 
or arranges motives and patterns for ornamen- 
tal or artistic purposes. 
The Latin poets, and the designers of the Roman med- 
I * . .41. j? 4 Hie l.;u in |w:ta, am* v\\\, ,ji,.o,'jimi a v* v.. 
particular purpose ; assign : with jor, to, or an a]s )ived very neal . one another, and were bred up to the 
infinitive: as, to designate an officer for the same relish for wit and fancy. Addison. 
A mere savage would decide the question of equality by 
a trial of bodily strength, designatnig the man that could 
lift the heaviest beam to be the legislator. 
J. Barlow, Advice to the Privileged Orders, i. 27. 
The state or quality of being designful or given 
to artifice. 
Base desuinfidnesx, and malitious cunning. 
Barrow, Works, II. vii. 
seethe verb.] Appointed; marked out 
solete in general use.] 
Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Glocester, . . . was the 
younger son of Sir Richard Plantagenet, the fourth son of 
that royal family, and King of England, designate by King 
Henry the Sixth. Sir O. Buck, Hist. Richard III., p. 3. 
Bishop designate, a priest nominated by royal or other 
authority to a vacant bishopric, but not yet elected or con- 
secrated. 
designing (df-zi'- or de-si'ning), a. [< design 
b_ + -!0 2 .] Artful; insidious; intriguing; con- 
triving schemes. 
Twould shew me poor, indebted, and compell'd, 
Designing, mercenary ; and I know 
You would not wish to think I could be bought. 
Southern. 
J. Fergusson, Hist. Arch., I. 428. 
5. A scheme or plan in the, mind ; purpose ; 
intention; aim. 
Now, it is a Rule, that great Designs of State should be 
Mysteries till they come to the very Act of Performance, 
and then they should turn to Exploits. 
llowell, Letters, I. iv. 17. 
Envious commands, invented with design 
To keep them low whom knowledge might exalt. 
Milton, P. L.,iv. 624. 
One might think the atmosphere was made transparent 
with this design, to giveman, in the heavenly bodies, the per- 
petual presence of the sublime. Emerson, Misc., p. 15. 
Specifically 6. An intention or a plan to act 
in some particular way; a project; especially, 
in a bad sense, a plan to do something harmful 
or illegal : commonly with upon. 
He believes nothing to be in them thatdissentfrom him, 
but faction, innovation, and particular designes. 
Milton, Eikonoklastes, xi. 
After Christmas we went back again to the Northward, 
havingarfesi'srn upon Arica, astrong Town advantageously 
situated in the hollow of the Elbow or bending of the 
Peruvian Coast. Dampier, Voyages, I. iv., Int. 
He uses no artifice in the world, but makes use of men's 
designs upon him to get a maintenance out of them. 
Steele, Spectator, No. 264. 
7. Contrivance ; adaptation of means to a pre- 
conceived end: as, the evidence of design in a 
watch. 
See what a lovely shell, . . . 
With delicate spire and whorl, 
How exquisitely minute, 
A miracle of design .' Tennyson, Maud, xxiv. 
The so-called intelligent design and execution of an act 
neither implies the existence of a pre-designing conscious- 
ness nor requires the intervention of any extra-physical 
agency in the individual organism. 
Maudsley, Body and Will, p. 85. 
8. The purpose for which something exists or 
is done ; the object or reason for something ; 
the final purpose. 
I have passed my days among a parcel of cool, designing 
beings, and have contracted all their suspicious manner 
in my own behaviour. 
Goldsmith, To Rev. Henry Goldsmith. 
. (des-ig-na shon), n. [= F. desi- = w cunnlngT crafty , tricky, sly. 
gnation = Pr. dezignacio = Sp. designacwn = ^{guless (de-zin'- or de-sin'les), a. [< design 
Pg. designacao It. designazione, < L. designa- + JJJ -j Aimless ; heedless. 
That designless love of sinning and ruining his own soul. 
Hammond, Works, IV. 513. 
tio(n-), < designare, pp. designatus, design: see 
design, v., designate, v.] 1. The act of pointing 
or marking out ; a distinguishing from others ; designleggly (de-zin'- or de-sin'les-li), adv. Un- 
indication: as, the designation of an estate by u 7* n u t jo nal f y \ aimlessly ; 'without design. 
boundaries. 
This is a plain designation of the duke of Marlborough : 
one kind of stuff used to fatten land is called marie, and 
every body knows that borough is a name for a town. 
2. Nomination ; appointment : as, a claim to a 
throne grounded on the designation of a prede- 
cessor. 
He is an High-priest, and a Saviour all-sufficient. First, 
by his Father's eternal designation. 
Hopkins, Sermons, xxv. 
3. A selecting and appointing; assignment: as, 
the designation of an officer to a particular com- 
mand. 4. The application of a word to indi- 
cate or name a particular thing or things ; de- 
notation. 
Finite and infinite seem to be . . . attributed primarily 
in their first designation only to those things which have 
parts. Locke. 
5. Description ; character ; disposition. 
Such are the accidents which, sometimes remembered, 
and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produced that particu- 
lar designation of mind, and propensity for some certain 
science or employment, which is commonly called Genius. 
Johnson. 
6. That which designates ; adistinctiveappella- 
In this great concert of his whole creation, the design- 
lessly conspiring voices are as differing as the conditions 
of the respective singers. 
designmentt, " [< design + -ment.] 1. De- 
sign; sketch; delineation. 
For though some meaner artist's skill were shown 
In mingling colours, or in placing light ; 
Yet still the fair denignmfiit was his own. 
Dryden, Death of Oliver Cromwell, 1. 96. 
2. Purpose; aim; intent; plot. 
Know his designments, and pursue mine own. 
B. Jonson, Sejanus, iii. 2. 
She received advice both of the king's desperate estate 
and of the duke's designments against her. 
Sir J. Hayward. 
3. Enterprise; undertaking. 
The desperate tempest hath so bang'd the Turks, 
That their designment halts. Shak., Othello, ii. 1. 
desilicated (de-sil'i-ka-ted), a. [< de- priv. + 
silica + -ate 2 + -ed 2 .] Deprived of silica: as, 
desilicated rock. 
desilicidation (de-si-lis-i-da'shon), n. [< de- 
prlv. + silic(on) + -id- + -dtion.'] The re- 
moval from a substance of silicon or any of its 
. w - compounds. 
tion; specifically, an addition to a name, as of desiliciflcation (de-si-lis"i-fi-ka shon), n. [_<de- 
title, profession, trade, or occupation, to distin- silicify : see -fij and -atton.] Same as desthm- 
guish the person from others. 7. In Scots law, dation. 
the setting apart of manses and glebes for the desilicify (de-si-hs'i-fj), v. t. ; pret. and pp. de- 
clergy from the church lands of the parish by silicified, ppr. ^f*f/2/"'f _. J_< ^; P nv - + <*<*- 
>riv. + sil- 
icon or its 
Something must suggest the design, and present ideas 
of the means tending thereto, before we can enter upon 
the prosecution. A. Tucker, Light of Nature, III. viii. 
tif= Pr. designatiu = Sp. Pg. designativo, < ML. 
'designativits (adv. designative), < L. designatus, 
pp. of designare, design, designate : see design, 
be otherwise accounted for. School of design, or acad- 
emy of design, 
its compounds. Also desilicify. 
The decarbonizing and desiliconizing of iron by the ac- 
tion of an oxidizing atmosphere is the essential feature of 
the processes of refining pig iron. Encyc. Brit., XIII. 333. 
desilver (de-sil'ver), r. t. [< de-priv. + silrer.] 
To deprive of silver; extract the silver con- 
. , - who designates~or points out. 2. In Bom. tainedin: as, to desilver lead. 
, an institution iu which persons are in- m ti,<t., an officer who assigned to each person desilverization (de-sil"ver-i-za'shpn), . [< de- 
"fttarr- i some\lmes de an' 1 as?o I chiio!, y of "' * and P laee in P ubllc shows and ceremo- *ili:eri:e + -<>.] The act or process of de- 
arst chi^^riodS'aS^lubitlontaud'al^ nies; a marshal or master of ceremonies. priving lead of the silver present m its ore. 
carries on courses of instruction in the fine arts, with the designatOiy (des'ig-na-to-ri), a. [< L. as if *de- Also spelled aesili'ensatioii. 
object of educating artists, and of promoting art in general s i f ,> M torins, < desifinare, 'designate: see dcsig- desilverize (de-sil'ver-Iz), v. t.; pret. and pp. 
usmg know edge of, f>d ta-tefor .t See od^, mi ' -, Tha ' t designates ;designative. Imp.Dict. desilverized, ppr. desilverizing [< de- priv. + 
eteTe"e S, ^Tl^it^SSkTobjS" designedly (de-zi'- or disl'nld-li), adv. By de- silver + -p.] To separate silver from, as from 
esignable (de-zi'- or de-si'na-bl), a. [< L. sign; purposely; intentionally: opposed to ac- its combination with other metals, and espe- 
as if *designa6ilis, < designare',' design : see de- Mentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently. cially from lead. See pattinsontze, and Parkes 
