Read full poem →The Earth deform and Heaven frght.
For whose excrescence ill design'd,
Nature must a new Center find,
Dictionary Entry
design
Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/dɪˈzaɪn/Word FrequencyNot availableCurriculum FrequencyLess common (1)Used In Literature ↓A specification of an object or process, referring to requirements to be satisfied and thus conditions to be met for them to solve a problem.
In a Sentence
“Writers often choose design when discussing complex ideas.”
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Poetry examples for “design”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And keep the one half from his Harry.
But fate doth so alternate the design,
Whilst that in Heav'n, this light on earth must shine.
Read full poem →Will't please you sit and look at her? I said
"Frà Pandolf" by design: for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
Read full poem →No more thy England own!
Dare injured nations form the great design,
To make detested tyrants bleed?
Read full poem →Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appall?—
If design govern in a thing so small.
Read full poem →And if Fortune go cross to my plan,
Believe me, my friend, tho' I mourn the design
I shall never lament for the man.