Both Uses of
designate
in
Jane Eyre
- Its grey front stood out well from the background of a rookery, whose cawing tenants were now on the wing: they flew over the lawn and grounds to alight in a great meadow, from which these were separated by a sunk fence, and where an array of mighty old thorn trees, strong, knotty, and broad as oaks, at once explained the etymology of the mansion's designation.†
Chpt 11
- Diana Rivers had designated her brother "inexorable as death."†
Chpt 31 *
Definition:
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(designate as in: designated driver) assign someone or something for a particular purpose