designing (dezior desining)

[ Twould shew me poor, indebted, and compell'd, Designing, mercenary; and I know You would not wish to think I could be bought. Southern . I have pa ed 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. ē-sin'les), a . [ design =Syn. Wily, cunning, crafty, tricky, sly. + -le .] Aimle ; heedle . 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. Howell , Letters, I. iv. 17. Envious commands, invented with design To keep them low whom knowledge might exalt. Milton , P. L., iv. 524. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design , to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual 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 that di ent from him, but faction, innovation, and particular designes. Milton , Eikon ok las tes, xi. IMG:content-2454.png:[blocks in formation] 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 ne 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. The design of these pools seems to have been to receive the rain water for the common uses of the city, and prob a bly even to drink in case of nece ity. Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 26. 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. Argument from design, the argument that the world must have an intelligent creator, because in the anatomy of animals and other things there is seen an adaptation of means to ends of too elaborate and detailed a kind to be otherwise accounted for. - School of design, or academy of design, an institution in which persons are instructed in the arts or principles of design, especially as applied in manufacture; sometimes, an a ociation of artists which holds periodical art exhibitions, and also carries on courses of instruction in the fine arts, with the object of educating artists, and of promoting art in general by diffusing knowledge of it and taste for it. See academy, 3.Syn. 1. Drawing, outline, draft, delineation.-5. Pro ject, Scheme, etc. (see plan, n. ), intent, aim, mark, object, designable (dē-zior dē-sin a-bl), a. [ IMG:content-2455.png:[blocks in formation] * Johnson, 6. That which designates; a distinctive appellation; specifically, an addition to a name, as of title, profe ion, trade, or occupation, to distinguish the person from others.-7. In Scots law , the setting apart of manses and glebes for the clergy from the church lands of the parish by the presbytery of the bounds.-8. În oyster culture : (a) A right to plant oysters in a given piece of ground designated for such purpose by oyster-commi ioners or other authority. (6) The ground itself so designated. [U. S.] =Syn. 6. Appellation , etc. See name , n. designative (des'ig-nā-tiv), a . [F. désigna tif = Pr. designatiu = Sp. Pg. designativo , designativus (adv. designative ), design at us , pp. of design are , design, designate: see design , designate.] Serving to designate or indicate. designator (des'ig-na-tor), n. [L. designator , design are , designate: see designate .] 1. One who designates or points out. 2. In Rom . antiq ., an officer who a igned to each person his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies; a marshal or master of ceremonies. designatory (des'ig-nā-to-ri), a . [L. as if * de sign at or i us , design are , designate: see desig nate.] That designates; designative. Imp . Dict . designedly (de-zi'- or de-si'ned-li), adv . By design; purposely; intentionally: opposed to ac cidentally, ignorantly , or inadvertently . That designle love of sinning and ruining his own soul. Hammond , Works, IV. 513. design les sly (dē-zīn' - or dē-sin'les-li), adv. Unintentionally; aimle ly; without design. In this great concert of his whole creation, the design le ly conspiring voices are as differing as the conditions of the respective singers. Boyle .