Word Meanings - PROJECTMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.

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• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• DESIGNATOR
  An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
• DESIGNATIVE
  Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
• DESIGNFUL
  Full of design; scheming. -- De*sign"ful*ness, n. Barrow.
• DESIGNEDLY
  By design; purposely; intentionally; -- opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently.
• DESIGNLESS
  Without design. -- De*sign"less*ly, adv.
• DESIGNER
  One who produces or creates original works of art or decoration. 3. A plotter; a schemer; -- used in a bad sense. (more info) 1. One who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver.
• DESIGNING
  Intriguing; artful; scheming; as, a designing man.
• DESIGNMENT
  1. Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention. 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. Shak.
• DESIGNABLE
  Capable of being designated or distinctly marked out; distinguishable. Boyle.
• DESIGNATORY
  Serving to designate; designative; indicating.
• CLARENDON
  A style of type having a narrow and heave face. It is made in all sizes. Note: This line is in nonpareil Clarendon.
• CONTRIVANCE
  1. The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Paley. 2. The thing contrived, invented,
• DESIGNATION
  1. The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication. 2. Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction. 3. That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation. The usual designation of
• FOREDESIGN
  To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.
• PREDESIGNATE
  A term used by Sir William Hamilton to define propositions having their quantity indicated by a verbal sign; as, all, none, etc.; -- contrasted with preindesignate, defining propositions of which the quantity is not so indicated.
• UNDESIGNING
  Having no artful, ulterior, or fraudulent purpose; sincere; artless; simple.
• PREDESIGN
  To design or purpose beforehand; to predetermine. Mitford.
• PREINDESIGNATE
  Having no sign expressive of quantity; indefinite. See Predesignate.