Crossword clues for destine
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Destine \Des"tine\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Destined; p. pr. & vb. n. Destining.] [F. destiner, L. destinare; de + the root of stare to stand. See Stand, and cf. Obstinate.] 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.
--Milton.
Till the loathsome opposite
Of all my heart had destined, did obtain.
--Tennyson.
Not enjoyment and not sorrow
Is our destined end or way.
--Longfellow.
Syn: To design; mark out; determine; allot; choose; intend; devote; consecrate; doom.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from Old French destiner (12c.), from Latin destinare "make fast or firm, establish" (see destination). Originally in English of the actions of deities, fate, etc. Of human choices or actions, from early 16c. Related: Destined.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To preordain 2 To assign something (especially finance) for a particular use 3 To have a particular destination
WordNet
Wikipedia
Destine was a rock band that formed in Tilburg, the Netherlands in 2006.
Usage examples of "destine".
Located where the Tailaroam River emptied into the Glittergeist Sea, the port was abustle with traffic as cargo was transferred from barges and keelboats to ocean-going freighters or animal-drawn wagons destined for the numerous towns and cities sprinkled through the vast forest known as the Bell woods.
She is not beautiful like Agata and for this reason she is destined for the convent.
The black shadow that covers the canvas dissolves, revealing the bright faces, now a little faded: Signoretto, Geraldo, Carlo, Fiammetta, Agata, the beautiful Agata, who seemed then to be destined for a future as a queen.
Farms have been established where animals destined to sacrifice, are born and bred.
There were also Vilmos, paramount of storm giants, Ottar, jarl of frost giants, and all the other Sons of Annam, the eternal monarchs born of Othea and destined to rule the races of giant-kind as long as Ostoria endured.
She had no temple and was handled by a jobbing priestess in Cable Street, but Moist had a feeling that by the end of the day Anoia was destined for higher things.
However, she was certain about one thing: Monster or not, Arion was her destined mate.
That would have been a tragedy because Roberto Arroya was an intellectual genius, a man destined for greatness-either great good or great evil.
Out of Santa Fe, New Mexico, the MacDuffs turned south along the Rio Grande toward the spot where the seeds of the ancient Caledonian and Athapascan warriors were destined to meet again for the first time, perhaps, since they had set out upon opposite trails from the birthplace of humanity in the days when ferns were trees, and unsailed seas lashed the shores of continents that are no more.
Bishop Wieber died of cancer late in 1964, the life of Gerald Beauvais was destined to change radically.
John preferred to take the place of danger which I had destined for others, and remained at Bilston till the worst was over.
Ruyven was at Tramontana, so she had heard, and perhaps he was the laranzu for whose hands these birds were destined.
Robes and skins were destined to become clothing, blankets, shields, or lightweight bullboats for traversing the rivers.
Ay, and when he thinks of the plenty of bible swords which he left behind him, destined to prove, and which have already proved, pretty calthrops in the heels of Popery.
I anticipated, were most helpful, speaking freely before, and to, one whom they thought destined to the chains of a slave.