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Definition of Destined

1. Adjective. Headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in 'college-bound students'. "A flight destined for New York"

2. Adjective. (usually followed by 'to') governed by fate. "He is destined to be famous"

Definition of Destined

1. Adjective. Confined to a predetermined fate or destiny; certain. ¹

2. Verb. (past of destine) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Destined

1. destine [v] - See also: destine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Destined

destigmatizes destigmatizing destimulate destimulated destimulates destimulating destimulation destinable destinal destinate

destinating destination destinationless destinations destine destined (current term) destines destinies destining destinist

destinists destiny destinyless destituent destitute destitute of(p) destituted destitutely destituteness destitutenesses

Literary usage of Destined

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"A large portion, perhaps, was of the second class, but is not proved as we think, to have been actually destined to belligerent use, and cannot therefore be ..."

2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... in Troy's rich fields destined to early death and far from home. 560 And each had near'd the other on the field, When first Patroclus hurl'd his spear, ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The period at Luneburg was destined to become the turning-point of his inner life as he dated from this time his conversion. In 1688 he was again at Hamburg ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The soul in its true essence is declared to be an incorporeal spirit destined for the intuition of the Idea; hence its ultimate end and supreme good is to ..."

5. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1920)
"Had he known that these young people were destined so to outdo him, the late Elagabalus would have died a disappointed man. Into this overheated atmosphere ..."

6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"He was destined for the church, but his bent towards natural science induced him to adopt the medical profession. Fitton was a man of very independent ..."

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