destines

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A score that destines young doctors-to-be to a life of ennui in a job they do not enjoy, because they could not match into the competitive specialty of their dreams.

From Scientific American • Mar. 12, 2020

He has resolved to dry the different plants which appear to him most proper for the use to which he destines them, and to submit them afterwards to a trial by fire.

From The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or the Real Robinson Crusoe by Saintine, Joseph Xavier

Armstrong talks about independence, and yet destines himself to the worst kind of dependence—slavery to money-getting.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 by Various

I believe he has a daughter, and destines this money to be her dowry.'

From Lord Kilgobbin by Lever, Charles James

She destines you for an alliance almost royal.

From The Man Who Laughs by Hugo, Victor