All 9 Uses of
designate
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- "Of course," replied Danglars; and going quickly to the designated place, they called for a bottle of wine, and two glasses.†
Chpt 1-2 (definition 2)
- And who thus designated it?†
Chpt 11-12 (definition 2)
- This horrible place contained fifty cells; their inhabitants were designated by the numbers of their cell, and the unhappy young man was no longer called Edmond Dantes—he was now number 34.
Chpt 13-14 (definition 1) *designated = referred to
- Caesar thought they could make use of one of the means which he always had ready for his friends, that is to say, in the first place, the famous key which was given to certain persons with the request that they go and open a designated cupboard.†
Chpt 17-18 (definition 2)
- What these happy persons took for reality was but a dream; but it was a dream so soft, so voluptuous, so enthralling, that they sold themselves body and soul to him who gave it to them, and obedient to his orders as to those of a deity, struck down the designated victim, died in torture without a murmur, believing that the death they underwent was but a quick transition to that life of delights of which the holy herb, now before you, had given them a slight foretaste.†
Chpt 31-32 (definition 2)
- The Count of Monte Cristo entered the adjoining room, which Baptistin had designated as the drawing-room, and found there a young man, of graceful demeanor and elegant appearance, who had arrived in a cab about half an hour previously.
Chpt 55-56 (definition 2) *designated = assigned
- You know that my means are limited, and that I am what would be designated a man of moderate pretensions.†
Chpt 57-58 (definition 2)
- …upon Debray,—an expression which seemed to imply that she understood all her mother's amorous and pecuniary relationships with the intimate secretary; moreover, she saw that Eugenie detested Debray,—not only because he was a source of dissension and scandal under the paternal roof, but because she had at once classed him in that catalogue of bipeds whom Plato endeavors to withdraw from the appellation of men, and whom Diogenes designated as animals upon two legs without feathers.†
Chpt 99-100 (definition 2)
- Monte Cristo ran down the steps, and advancing towards the spot designated beheld Villefort, encircled by his servants, with a spade in his hand, and digging the earth with fury.†
Chpt 111-112 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (designate as in: designated by a star on the map) indicate or signify (show something in a particular way)
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(2) (designate as in: designated driver) assign someone or something for a particular purpose