designment

One's design or plan; an objective, an undertaking.

Noun

  1. One's design or plan; an objective, an undertaking.
    • The second Bulwarke was the Hearing sence, / Gainst which the second troupe dessignment makes [...] - 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie,...
    • The deſperate Tempeſt has ſo bang'd the Turke, / That their deſignement halts; Another ſhippe of Venice hath ſeene / A greeuous wracke and ſufferance / On moſt part of the Fleete. - c. 1603–1604 (date written), William...

Origin

From design + -ment.

Forms

designments