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Destine   Listen
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Destine  v. t.  (past & past part. destined; pres. part. destining)  To determine the future condition or application of; to set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny or by an authoritative decree; to doom; to ordain or preordain; to appoint; often with the remoter object preceded by to or for. "We are decreed, Reserved, and destined to eternal woe." "Till the loathsome opposite Of all my heart had destined, did obtain." "Not enjoyment and not sorrow Is our destined end or way."
Synonyms: To design; mark out; determine; allot; choose; intend; devote; consecrate; doom.





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"Destine" Quotes from Famous Books



... bruloient dans des flambeaux de cuivre, et deux couverts assez propres. Dans un moment, me dit Tordesillas, on va nous apporter a manger: nous allons souper ici tous deux. C'est ce reduit que je vous ai destine pour logement. Vous y serez mieux que dans votre cachot; vous verrez de votre fenetre les bords fleuris de l'Erema, et la vallee delicieuse qui, du pied des montagnes qui separent les deux Castilles, s'etend jusqu'a Coca. Je suis bien que vous serez d'abord peu sensible ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various


Words linked to "Destine" :   design, fate, ordain, designate, slate, direct, calculate, intend, mean, specify, destination, plan


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