Verb
To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice; -- opposed to disdain.
To condescend to give or bestow; to stoop to furnish; to vouchsafe; to allow; to grant.
To think worthy; to vouchsafe; to condescend; - - followed by an infinitive.
Source: Webster's dictionaryDeign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. Samuel Johnson
Forsooth, I no longer toil in vain, To prove that demon pox warps the brain. So though 'ti pity, it's not in vain That the pox-ridden worm was slain: For to believe in me, you all must deign. Cassandra Clare
mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am. Roland Barthes
Other scholars, when they deign to notice the evidence in the PurANas in respect of the indigenous origin of the Aryans and their expansion outside India, tend to dismiss this evidence as irrelevant on the ground that it is allegedly contradictory to the evidence of the Rigveda. Shrikant Talageri
Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope. Alexandre Dumas
I try to deign golf courses that are individual in character and individual in their own standing. Arnold Palmer