destine
verb (used with object)
to set apart for a particular use, purpose, etc.; design; intend.
had destined
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past perfectof destine.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Achieve this level of enlightenment quickly enough, and you might—might!—rescue some hair that your DNA had destined to be Drano’d away.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2014
But Providence had destined her for another fate.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 28, 2011
What my father aspired to be and what Allah had destined for him was nurtured chiefly by the fertile tutelage of his parents while his family was still together and thriving as a unit.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
David was old and decrepit, lying feebly at the edge of death, when word was brought to him that Adonijah had been proclaimed king in place of Solomon, for whom he had destined the throne.
From The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie
Had she not a pathological library, filled with all that a physician needed,--the same that she had destined for Walter, but had not yet sent to him?
From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern
