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Self-design, n. [e.m.E. self-design (1687); Self pron. and Desing n.] A design or intention to further one's own interests. — 1650 Wodrow Hist. I (1828) 67.
To follow his interest with a prejudice to the Gospel, … which he looks not upon as duty, but as flattery, and driving of self designs, under a pretence of maintaining royal authority a1658 Durham Commandments (1675) 102.
Manifest unsingleness, and self-designs, driven under a cloak of religion, which maketh them call all that are religious, cheats