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[English design at (e); -ive.] Serving to designate or distinguish; designating. 1. The act of designing, sketching, or planning a work. "The scenes which represent cities and countries are painted on boards and canvas; but shall that ex- cuse the ill painture or designment of them?"-Dryden. 2. A design, sketch, or plan of a work. "Yet still the fair designment was his own." Dryden: Cromwell , xxiv. 3. A design, a plot, a scheme, an enterprise. "Whatsoeuer wicked designement shal be conspired and plotted against her majesty." -Hackluyt: Voyages, i. 619. 4. A design, purpose, sim, or intent. "The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks That their designment halts." Shakesp.: Othello , ii. 1. IMG:content-2258.png:[blocks in formation]