Word Meanings - DESTINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: DESTINE

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.

Related words: (words related to DESTINE)

• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• ORDAINMENT
  Ordination. Burke.
• OBJECTIST
  One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy. Ed. Rev.
• PRECEDENTLY
  Beforehand; antecedently.
• OBJECT
  before, to oppose; ob + jacere to throw: cf. objecter. See 1. To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose. Of less account some knight thereto object, Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove. Fairfax. Some strong
• OBJECTIVATE
  To objectify.
• PURPOSE
  1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.
• CONDITIONAL
  Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
• APPOINTER
  One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.
• APARTMENT HOUSE
  A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.
• APARTNESS
  The quality of standing apart.
• PREORDAIN
  To ordain or appoint beforehand: to predetermine: to foreordain. Milton.
• APPOINTMENT
  The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. 6. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever
• DESIGNATOR
  An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
• OBJECTLESS
  Having no object; purposeless.
• PRECEDENTED
  Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind. Walpole.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• FOREDESIGN
  To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.
• FOREORDAIN
  To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine. Hooker.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• PREAPPOINTMENT
  Previous appointment.