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

God destines you to accomplish great things for his glory, and exterior humiliations in your case not being suited to his designs, he makes use of concealed humiliations, known only to yourself and God.

From Letters of Madam Guyon by Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte

"That Providence destines this country to some great and glorious fate I must believe, while I witness the patriotism that pervades the bosoms of her lowest citizens," he said.

From The Spy by Cooper, James Fenimore

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 Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard)

The same conduct God in his tender mercy holds with regard to those chosen souls which he destines to raise, by special graces, highest in his favor.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban