destine
verb (used with object)
to set apart for a particular use, purpose, etc.; design; intend.
has destined
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present perfectof destine (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Without their involvement, Mr. Papantonio said, “He has destined the process for failure.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2010
Because you took me for the representative of that principle of liberty which God has destined to become the common benefit of all humanity.
From Select Speeches of Kossuth by Francis William Newman
Side by side with these primitive conditions stands a romantic story of Ojin's self-denial in ceding to his son, Osazaki, a beautiful girl whom the sovereign has destined to be his own consort.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley
If I did not believe in a Divine order, which has destined this German nation for something good and great, I would at once give up the business of a diplomatist.
From Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by Hezekiah Butterworth
Of what consequence is it, whether God has destined men to happiness or misery by an anterior decree, an effect of his prescience, or by a posterior decree, an effect of his justice?
From Good Sense by Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach
