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With profound skill; with art or intricacy; as, a deeply laid plot or intrigue.

infamous; to bring into disrepute. My guilt thy growing virtues did defame; My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name. Dryden.

dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes. Tillotson. The escheators . . . defeated the right heir of his succession. Hallam. In one instance he defeated his own purpose. A. W. Ward.

The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse. Willful degeneracy from goodness. Tillotson.

eteriorate. When wit transgresseth decency, it degenerates into insolence and impiety. Tillotson.

Capable of being blotted out or erased. "An impression easily deleble." Fuller.

Things to be erased or blotted out.

To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit. I have, therefore, . . . inserted eleven stanzas which do not appear in Sir Walter Scott's version, and have deleted eight. Aytoun.

Act of deleting, blotting out, or erasing; destruction. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. A total deletion of every person of the opposing party. Sir M. Hale.

That which blots out. [Obs.] "A deletory of sin." Jer. Taylor.

The mistress of Samson, who betrayed him (Judges xvi.); hence, a harlot; a temptress. Other Delilahs on a smaller scale Burns met with during his Dumfries sojourn. J. C. Shairp.

abric of my book would long since have been demolished, and laid even with the ground. Tillotson.

monstrate these things so as to show that the contrary often involves a contradiction. Tillotson.

The unraveling or discovery of a plot; the catastrophe, especially of a drama or a romance.

divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands.

intention; purpose; -- often used in a bad sense for evil intention or purpose; scheme; plot. The vast design and purposTennyson. The leaders of that assembly who withstood the designs of a besotted woman. Hallam. A . . . settled design upon another man's life. Locke. How little he could guess the secret designs of th…

Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction.

A plotter; a schemer; -- used in a bad sense.

To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe. [Obs.] Chaucer.

stined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom. Thither he Will come to know his destiny. Shak. No man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. Bryant.