The act of putting a person into a non-elective position

Usage examples of designation.

This designation was used by the representatives of the Adoptian Christology only after they had expressed their doctrine antithetically and developed it to a theory, and always with a certain reservation.

Two of the many nations found among them are the Triballi, once so named, and the Dardani, who have the same designation at present.

Thus, Gutshot is the designation of both the planet and the colony surrounding the port, while End of Nothing means both the settlement and planet, as you choose.

But the name Kalmuk, I learned, is not a national or tribal designation.

And long and heartily did Dick Varley laugh as he told the horse his future designation in the presence of Crusoe, for it struck him as somewhat ludicrous that a mustang which, two days ago, pawed the earth in all the pride of independent freedom, should suddenly come down so low as to carry a hunter on his back and be named Charlie.

As at all airports, the designation was in large white characters on the runway surface.

WAS ASSIGNED INMATE NUMBER 95-A6514, the numerical designation he will carry with him for the rest of his natural life, when he arrived at the Attica Correctional Facility in February 1996.

Lord 1, began the practice of conferring honourary designations on Confucius by imperial authority.

He woke, the list of time line designations in his hand, when the conveyor rematerialized on Home Time Line.

Robot City were reprogrammed through the central core, but their identities and designations were not changed.

Collins said the county has no figures for how many voters were able to successfully appeal their designation as felons.

At all events, it had long been felt that the natural sciences would be appreciably dignified by a dose of classical renaming, so there was a certain dismay in discovering that the self-appointed Prince of Botany had sprinkled his texts with such designations as Clitoria, Fornicata, and Vulva.

Engineering designs based on their equations resulted in the construction of the first Caplis generator, variations of which power all interstellar vessels by accelerating them to speeds that allow them to slip into the fifth dimension, more commonly known today by its colloquial designation, space-plus.

On the floor at his feet, where he had let it fall, lay the latest issue of The Compeer, whose lead article announced the Constitutional Congress's designation of Whiss Valeur as acting Protector of the Republic.

But not only is the designation of spolia opima restricted to those which a commander-in-chief has taken from a commander-in-chief - and we know of no commander-in-chief but the one under whose auspices the war is conducted - but I and my authorities are also confuted by the actual inscription on the spoils, which states that Cossus took them when he was consul.