designment

American  

[dih-zahyn-muhnt] / dɪˈzaɪn mənt /

noun

Obsolete.

1. design; plan.

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Etymology

Origin of designment

First recorded in 1560–70; design + -ment

Example Sentences

What to this hour successively is done   Was full of peril, to our honor small,   Naught to our first designment, if we shun   The purposed end, or here lie fixed all.

From Jerusalem Delivered by Fairfax, Edward

Hauing buried onely in a preparation a great masse of substance, wherby his estate was impaired, his minde yet not dismaid he continued his former designment and purpose to reuiue this enterprise, good occasion seruing.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. by Hakluyt, Richard

I am now to put in act an especial designment from my father Jove; but, that perform'd, I am for any fresh action that offers itself.

From Cynthia's Revels by Jonson, Ben

Second, That by the will of God, we also understand his order and designment.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John

That was only a typical designment by special promise, because Christ was to come of that line; it was therefore established in David's family for typical reasons, that cannot be now alledged.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander