PLAN Copy link • PLAN 1. s. Design (of a building), species: forma: imago: designatio: descriptio: deformatio (general terms): operis futuri figura (Vitr., 1, 2, in definition of orthographia, elevation): ground-plan, ichnographia: to sketch or draw a plan, operis speciem deformare; formam or imaginem operis delineare: to build according to a plan, perficere opus ad propositum deformationis: he exhibited various plans of baths drawn on parchment, ostendebat depictas in membranulis varias species balnearum. (In the mind), consilium, consilium institutum (as a result of deliberation): cogitatio (a thought): propositum (a purpose): inceptum (a beginning): ratio (implying a calculation of the mode of proceeding and the results): descriptio (a sketch, in which each particular is put in its proper place): ordo (the order in which everything is to be done): the plan of an operation, rei agendae ordo: the plan of a campaign or war, totius belli ratio: a settled plan, ratio stabilis ac firma: without plan, nullo consilio; nulla ratione: to lay down a plan, instituere, or describere, rationem alicujus rei: to do anything according to a plan, aliquid ad rationem dirigere; modo ac ratione aliquid facere: to form a plan, consilium capere, or inire, aliquid faciendi, or with the infinitive, or ut (to design); in animum inducere, or consrituere, with an infinitive, or ut (to make up one’s mind, intend); consilium capere or inire de re: to pursue a plan, rationem alicujus rei insistere: to give up or desist from a plan, rationem omittere. 2. v. To make or form a plan, PROP. and figuratively; Vid: the substantive.