- present tense form of destine (3rd person singular).
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
Allow me, then, to call him here so as to restore his confidence; or, better still, come and show me the portion, which your munificence destines for me.
From Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora by Mayne Reid
He destines for himself no indolent tarrying in the garden of Armida.
From Milton by Mark Pattison
The like may be fancied upon all changes of government; when providence destines the ends, it orders the means.
From Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects by John Aubrey
He is enraged at the suspicion that life, though past, may not be finished—that Faust's human soul may yet elude that hell to which he destines it ... that of annihilation.
From The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' by H. B. (Henry Bernard) Cotterill
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