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Designment

Designment \De*sign"ment\, n.

  1. 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.

  2. Design; purpose; scheme. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

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designment

n. (context obsolete English) One's design or plan; an objective, an undertaking.

Usage examples of "designment".

For if the Almighty had not determin'd a fixed duration unto it, according to his mighty and merciful designments in it, if he had not said unto it, as he did unto a part of it, hitherto shalt thou go and no farther.