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To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint. We shall see Justice design the victor's chivalry. Shak. Meet me to-morrow where the master And this fraternity shall design. Beau. & Fl.

Capable of being designated or distinctly marked out; distinguishable. Boyle.

Designated; appointed; chosen. [R.] Sir G. Buck.

The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.

Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.

One who designates.

Serving to designate; designative; indicating. [R.]

By design; purposely; intentionally; -- opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently.

One who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver.

Full of design; scheming. [R.] -- De*sign"ful*ness, n. [R.] Barrow.

Intriguing; artful; scheming; as, a designing man.

Without design. [Obs.] -- De*sign"less*ly, adv. [Obs.]

Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention. [Obs.] For though that some mean artist's skill were shown In mingling colors, or in placing light, Yet still the fair designment was his own. Dryden.

To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.

To design or purpose beforehand; to predetermine. Mitford.

g their quantity indicated by a verbal sign; as, all, none, etc.; -- contrasted with preindesignate, defining propositions of which the quantity is not so indicated.

Having no sign expressive of quantity; indefinite. See Predesignate.

Having no artful, ulterior, or fraudulent purpose; sincere; artless; simple.

Astride; with a part on each side; -- used specif. in designating the position of an army with the wings separated by some line of demarcation, as a river or road.

Tending or designed to abrogate; as, an abrogative law.