Vocabulary : Desiderative to Designate

Desiderative : Denoting desire; as, desiderative verbs. ;; An object of desire. ;; A verb formed from another verb by a change of termination, and expressing the desire of doing that which is indicated by the primitive verb.
Desideratum : Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge.
Desidiose : Alt. of Desidious
Desidious : Idle; lazy.
Desidiousness : The state or quality of being desidiose, or indolent.

Desight : An unsightly object.
Desightment : The act of making unsightly; disfigurement.
Design : To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw. ;; To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint. ;; To create or produce, as a work of art; to form a plan or scheme of; to form in idea; to invent; to project; to lay out in the mind; as, a man designs an essay, a poem, a statue, or a cathedral. ;; To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to. ;; To form a design or designs; to plan. ;; A preliminary sketch; an outline or pattern of the main features of something to be executed, as of a picture, a building, or a decoration; a delineation; a plan. ;; A plan or scheme formed in the mind of something to be done; preliminary conception; idea intended to be expressed in a visible form or carried into action; intention; purpose; -- often used in a bad sense for evil intention or purpose; scheme; plot. ;; Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred
Designable : Capable of being designated or distinctly marked out; distinguishable.
Designate : Designated; appointed; chosen. ;; To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description; to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country; to designate the rioters who are to be arrested. ;; To call by a distinctive title; to name. ;; To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; -- with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.

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