Dear Eduardo,
Thanks for your kind words and thank you for the additional information.
The 1548 usage exemplar in the Oxford English Dictionary is Hall’s Chronicle:
“II. [allied to DESIGN n. I, obs. F. desseigner] To plan, purpose, intend. 8. To form a plan or scheme of; to conceive and arrange in the mind; to originate mentally, planout, contrive. 1548 HALL Chron. 215 When all thing was redy, according as he desyned.”
Hall’s Chronicle is the short title for a history of England from Henry IV to Henry VIII by Edward Hall. The first edition appeared in 1542. Hall died in 1547. The 1548 edition was published after his death.
I’m assuming this is the 1548 exemplar for Merriam-Webster’s, but M-W does not publish exemplars in the way that OED does. M-W has a massive lexicographic database, but it is used only for research within Merriam-Webster's.
Yours,
Ken
Professor Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | University Distinguished Professor | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia | [log in to unmask] |Phone +61 3 9214 6102 | http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design
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