"_Predeceased_" and "_Designed_" (Vol. iii., p. 143.).--The former word is
used in an active sense by Shakspeare, in his "Rape of Lucrece:"
"If children _predecease_ progenitors,
We are their offspring, and they none of ours."
"Designed," in the sense of "designated," is employed by Locke:
"'Tis not enough to make a man a subject, to convince him that there is
regal power in the world; but there must be ways of _designing_ and
knowing the person to whom the regal power of right belongs."