We shall see
Justice design the victor's chivalry. Shak.

Meet me to-morrow where the master
And this fraternity shall design. Beau. *** Fl.

Ask of politicians the end for which laws were originally designed. Burke.

He was designed to the study of the law. Dryden.

Syn. -- To sketch; plan; purpose; intend; propose; project; mean.

Design for, to intend to go to. [Obs.] "From this city she designed for Collin [Cologne]." Evelyn.

The vast design and purpos(?) of the King. Tennyson.

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 the court! Macaulay.

Arts of design, those into which the designing of artistic forms and figures enters as a principal part, as architecture, painting, engraving, sculpture. -- School of design, one in which are taught the invention and delineation of artistic or decorative figures, patterns, and the like.

Syn. -- Intention; purpose; scheme; project; plan; idea. - - Design, Intention, Purpose. Design has reference to something definitely aimed at. Intention points to the feelings or desires with which a thing is sought. Purpose has reference to a settled choice or determination for its attainment. "I had no design to injure you," means it was no part of my aim or object. "I had no intention to injure you," means, I had no wish or desire of that kind. "My purpose was directly the reverse," makes the case still stronger.

Is he a prudent man . . . that lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to the remaining part of his life? Tillotson.

I wish others the same intention, and greater successes. Sir W. Temple.

It is the purpose that makes strong the vow. Shak.