DESIGN Copy link • DESIGN 1. v. Purpose, intend, in animo habere: cogitare; agitare (in) mente or (in) animo: parare (to prepare): moliri (mostly of some difficult purpose): agitare de aliqua re; moliri aliquid: constituere (to fix; to purpose): destinare (e.g., quae agere destinaverat). [Vid: To PURPOSE, To INTEND.] To draw an outline or sketch, delineare; designare; describere (not used absolutely, but always with the object expressed; e.g., imaginem, or some such word): depingere; describere (figuratively): to design skilfully, probe depingere aliquid: to be skilled in the art of designing, graphidos scientiam habere. Vid: To DRAW. 2. Purpose, consilium (plan or purpose): coeptum; inceptum (beginning, or undertaking): propositum (intention or purpose): institutum (that which anybody intends to put into execution): cogitata, plur., quod cogito (what is in the thoughts, or will): my design, res, quam paro; institutum meum: to betray or discover his designs, consilium or cogitata patefacere: to execute his design, consilium exsequi; propositum peragere: to have a design to injure, habere voluntatem nocendi: to entertain hostile designs against the state, contra rempublicam sentire: to form great designs, magna meditari or moliri. Sketch, plan, designatio; adumbratio: deformatio (delineation): forma; figura; species (sketch): imago (outline): descriptio; ichnographia (ground plan): a design for a house, aedificandi descriptio (e.g., usus, ad quem accommodanda est aedificandi descriptio, Cic.). Drawing, graphis, idos, f. (γραφίς), or in pure Latin, pictura linearis: to be skilful in the art of design, graphidos scientiam habere; graphidos non imperitum esse.