design'd

Verb

design (third-person singular simple present designs, present participle designing, simple past and past participle designed)

1. (transitive) To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).
   • comments designed to chip away at my self-esteem
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To plan (to do something).
   • The king designed to mount an expedition to the New World.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate.
   • he looks not below the Moon, but hath designed the regiment of sublunary affairs unto inferiour deputations.1646, Thomas Browne, chapter I, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 10
4. (obsolete, transitive) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
5. To manifest requirements to be satisfied by an object or process for them to solve a problem.
   • We shall see / Justice design the victor's chivalry.1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to...

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