Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete)  To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate.

* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.10:

he looks not below the Moon, but hath designed the regiment of sublunary affairs unto inferiour deputations.

* Dryden

He was designed to the study of the law.

To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).

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Primitive people believe that gods designed the Earth and humans.

(obsolete) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.

* Shakespeare

We shall see / Justice design the victor's chivalry.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

Meet me to-morrow where the master / And this fraternity shall design .

Verb

(resolv)

To find a solution to (a problem).

To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.

to resolve a riddle

* Shakespeare

Resolve my doubt.

To solve again.

To make a firm decision to do something.

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To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.

He was resolved by an unexpected event.

To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.

(transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.

* Shakespeare

O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!

* Dryden

Ye immortal souls, who once were men, / And now resolved to elements again.

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To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.

* Alexander Pope

Resolve me, Reason, which of these is worse, / Want with a full, or with an empty purse?

* Sir Walter Raleigh

In health, good air, pleasure, riches, I am resolved it can not be equalled by any region.

* Milton

We must be resolved how the law can be pure and perspicuous, and yet throw a polluted skirt over these Eleusinian mysteries.

(music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.

(computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.

(rare) To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).

(rare, intransitive, reflexive) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.

* Arbuthnot

When the blood stagnates in any part, it first coagulates, then resolves , and turns alkaline.

(obsolete) To liquefy (a gas or vapour).

(medicine, dated) To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.

(obsolete) To relax; to lay at ease.

(Ben Jonson)