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|lshtext=<b>dē-signo</b>: or dissigno (the [[latter]] form preferred by Brambach in [[sense]] II. B. 2. [[infra]]; so Keller, ad Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 16; cf. Roby, L. G. 2, p. 384), āvi, ātum, 1,<br /><b>I</b> v. a., to [[mark]] [[out]], [[trace]] [[out]] (freq. in the Aug. per.); to [[describe]], [[designate]], [[define]] (for syn. cf.: [[nomino]], [[appello]]; [[voco]], [[dico]]; [[facio]], coöpto, [[evoco]], [[prodo]], [[declaro]], [[renuntio]], [[seligo]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: [[Aeneas]] urbem designat [[aratro]], Verg. A. 5, 755; cf.: [[moenia]] fossā, id. ib. 7, 157: [[moenia]] [[sulco]], Ov. F. 4, 825; and: [[oppidum]] [[sulco]], Tac. A. 12, 24.— With dat.: [[finis]] templo Jovis, Liv. 1, 10; cf.: locum [[circo]], id. 1, 35:—vulnere frontem, to [[mark]], Stat. Th. 6, 782; cf.: [[nubila]] ingenti [[gyro]], id. ib. 1, 311.—*<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf., to [[delineate]], [[design]], [[depict]], [[represent]], sc. by embroidering, [[weaving]], etc.: Europen, Ov. M. 6, 103.—Far [[more]] freq.,<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen., to [[point]] [[out]], [[mark]], [[denote]] by [[speech]]; to [[designate]], [[describe]], [[represent]]: haec ab hominibus callidis animadversa ac notata, verbis designata, Cic. de Or. 1, 23, 109; cf.: [[affectus]] [[velut]] primis lineis designare, Quint. 4, 2, 120; and: aliquem [[aliqua]] oratione, Caes. B. G. 1, 18: notat et designat oculis ad caedem unumquemque [[nostrum]], Cic. Cat. 1, 1, 2; cf.: aliquem digito, Ov. Am. 3, 1, 19; 3, 6, 77: decumam ex [[praeda]], Liv. 5, 25: aliquem [[nota]] ignaviae, id. 24, 16: turpitudinem [[aliquam]], Cic. de Or. 2, 58, 236: quem ([[mundum]]) [[alio]] [[loco]] [[ipse]] designarit deum, id. N. D. 1, 13, 33: [[multa]], quae nimiam luxuriam et victoriae fiduciam designarent, Caes. B. C. 3, 96.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In a [[bad]] [[sense]], to [[contrive]], [[devise]], [[perpetrate]] (syn.: exsequi, patrare, perpetrare—[[very]] [[rare]]): quae designata sint et facta [[nequitia]], Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 66; cf.: Illa, quae [[antehac]] facta sunt, Omitto; [[modo]] [[quid]] designavit! Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 7 Donat.—In a [[good]] [[sense]]: [[quid]] non [[ebrietas]] designat, [[effect]], do, [[accomplish]], Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 16 Orell.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With [[access]]. [[idea]] of [[arrangement]], to [[dispose]], [[regulate]], [[arrange]], [[appoint]], [[ordain]], [[nominate]], [[elect]], [[choose]]: constituere et designare aliquid, Cic. Div. 1, 38, 82: [[Anaxagoras]] [[primus]] omnium rerum descriptionem et modum mentis infinitae vi ac ratione designari et confici voluit, to be designed and executed, id. N. D. 1, 11; cf. id. ib. 3, 35.—Esp., to [[appoint]] to a [[public]] [[office]]: aliquem praetorem, Suet. Cal. 18: Mamertinum Consulem, Amm. 21, 12, 25: ut ii decemviratum habeant, quos [[plebs]] designaverit: [[oblitus]] est, nullos ab plebe designari, Cic. Agr. 2, 10 fin.: [[Catilina]] in proximum annum consulatum petebat, sperans si designatus foret, etc., Sall. C. 26.—Hence,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Polit. t. t.: dēsig-nātus, [[elect]]; applied to a [[person]] elected to an [[office]], [[but]] [[who]] has not [[yet]] entered [[upon]] it: [[consul]], Cic. Fam. 11, 6; Vell. 2, 58, and the superscriptions of letters in Cic. Fam. 11, 4-8: [[tribunus]] [[plebis]], id. Agr. 2, 5, 11; id. Att. 3, 13; Sall. J. 27, 2: [[quaestor]], Vell. 2, 111, 3 et saep.—Also, said of the [[office]] itself: Pompeio [[consulatus]] designatus est, Gell. 14, 7, 1.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Transf., [[expected]]; of a [[child]] not [[yet]] [[born]]: designatus [[civis]], Cic. Clu. 11, 32.