Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Designment \De*sign"ment\, n.
   1. Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention. [Obs.]

            For though that some mean artist's skill were shown
            In mingling colors, or in placing light, Yet still
            the fair designment was his own.      --Dryden.

   2. Design; purpose; scheme. [Obs.] --Shak.