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

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 Project Gutenberg

If their office and power be of God immediately, they must do the duties of their place according to his designment, and unto him they must give account; but if their power and function be from the church, the church must give account to God, and the officers to the church, whom she doth take to be her helpers, &c.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

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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 Project Gutenberg

And therefore he was straight sent unto by the Duchess to go for Ireland, according to the first designment.

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