designedlyadv.
/dᵻˈzʌɪnᵻdli/, U.S. /dəˈzaɪnədli/, /diˈzaɪnədli/ By design; on purpose; intentionally or deliberately, now often in order to produce a specific effect.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > intention > [adverb]
willesOE
with one's willc1175
willes and waldesc1225
adviselya1325
wittinglya1340
wilfullyc1374
witting1377
a-purposea1382
of purpose (also (out) of (a) (set) purpose)a1382
wilfulc1381
willingly1402
of intention1430
knowingly1435
advisedlyc1449
deliberately1471
purpensely1472
purposely1495
prepensedly1496
purpensedly1496
purposedlya1540
proposely?1550
studiously1567
on (also upon) purpose1569
on set purpose1569
of industry1575
affectedly1582
premeditatelya1595
deliberatively1598
consultively1599
intentionallya1673
affectionally1603
by (also out of, on, upon) design1603
intentionately1609
industriouslya1616
perpensedly1624
intendedlya1641
unspontaneously1640
industrously1643
consultedly1645
consideringly1647
designedly1652
premeditatedly1653
wittily1653
intendingly1678
premeditatinglya1679
self-consciously1685
propensely1694
thinkingly1705
accidentally on purpose1711
affectionatelya1716
prepensely?1725
systematically1744
advertently1745
systemically1761
reflectively1775
purposefullya1854
meaningly1867
aimfully1870
purposively1878
designingly1879
proposedly1887
1652 T. Fuller Comment S. Matthew's Gospel viii. 119 Some seeming contradictions..not casually scattered, but..designedly placed..in his [sc. God's] Word.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 234. ⁋1 An Art of being often designedly dull.
1776 J. Wesley Let. 22 Oct. (1931) VI. 235 I apprehend Joseph Fothergill was not designedly omitted.
1802 C. Smith Let. 23 Aug. (2003) 440 I may have done so, but certainly not designedly.
1860 C. Darwin Let. 22 May in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 432 I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
1917 A. Cahan Rise of David Levinsky (1993) xiii. iii. 468 When he came I designedly kept him in my waiting-room for some minutes before I received him.
2010 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 11 May 30 In an attempt to encourage the culprit out of hiding, he gives a designedly provocative television interview.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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