- 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
She destines you for an alliance almost royal.
From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
Such a girl may a man marry who destines his days to the wild west; but woe unto him!—woe unto him, should he migrate among the more civilized and less charitable coteries of our neighbors!
From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Charles James Lever
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 Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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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