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▪ I. † ˈdestinate, ppl. a. (n.) Obs. or arch.
[ad. L. dēstināt-us, pa. pple. of dēstināre to destine.]
1. Fated, ordained; = destined 1.
a. as pple.
a1400–50Alexander 692 So was me destinate [Ashm. MS. destaned] to dy. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxxii, That northeren winde that is ever ready and destynat to all evel. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. 315 They are destinate to destruction. c1611Chapman Iliad xxiv. 468 The Gods have destinate That wretched mortals must live sad. 1634Habington Castara (Arb.) 107 A small flye By a fooles finger destinate to dye.
b. as adj.
1605Lond. Prodigal i. i, That a bad conscience may bring him to his destinate repentance. a1659Bp. Morton Episc. Asserted 99 (T.) Walo Messalinus, a destinate adversary to episcopacy.
2. Set apart for a particular purpose; ordained; intended; = destined 2.
a. as pa. pple.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. xi. 38 Dry stony layers are destinate to white Saxifrage, Bugle, Lauender. 1671F. Phillips Reg. Necess. 199 Admitted into an Inns of Court, heretofore only destinate and appropriate to the sons of Nobility.
b. as adj.
1583Stanyhurst Aeneis ii. (Arb.) 63 See that you doe folow youre moothers destinat order. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. i. Pref. (1622) 8 The destinate end, and scope of this worke. 1660Gauden God's Gt. Demonstr. 35 Wilful murther and destinate villany.
B. n. That which is destined; a fated or appointed event, etc.
1675R. Burthogge Causa Dei 153 Destinates are said to be in vain, if either they are insufficiently, or not at all, referred to their Ends.
▪ II. destinate, v. Now rare.|ˈdɛstɪneɪt|
[f. L. dēstināt-, ppl. stem of dēstināre: see destine v.]
1. trans. To ordain, appoint: = destine v. 1.
1490Caxton Eneydos xiii. 47 To doo sacrefyces destynated vnto the noble goddesse Ceres. 1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 94 Vsurping that facultye and vocation at the first destinated as peculiar to gentlemen. 1638Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. i. (1654) 7 You are destinated to fill the place of that Cardinal. 1712Ld. King Primitive Church ii. 5 He that read the Scriptures, was particularly destinated to this office. c1870J. G. Murphy Comm. Lev. i. 4 Laying the hand on is the solemn act of designating or destinating to a certain purpose.
†b. To doom, sentence (to a punishment); to ordain or appoint (a punishment) to be inflicted.
1579Fenton Guicciard. v. (1618) 211 Destinated to a more slow, but to a greater punishment. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. viii. i. (1632) 393 Whom the Priest by casting of lots had destinated to death. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. xiii. (1626) 269 [She] Still Queen-like, destinates his punishment. 1652L. S. People's Liberty x. 24 To preserve their Bishop Eusebius from banishment, to which Valens their Emperour had destinated him.
2. To appoint or predetermine in the way of fate or of a divine decree; pass. to be divinely appointed or fated; = destine v. 2.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. i. (R.) That name that God..did destinate and appoynt vnto hym, before the creation of the worlde. a1617Bayne On Ephes. (1658) 156 Christ is a head of those only whom God hath destinated to convert. 1618Bolton Florus iv. i. 260 The man..to whom soveraignty was destinated in Sibylls verses. 1651Wittie Primrose's Pop. Err. ii. viii. 105 The Turks..doe not regard the Pestilence, because they thinke that God hath destinated to every one his manner of death.
b. To determine the destiny of.
1839Bailey Festus viii. (1848) 91 It is love which mostly destinates our life.
3. To devote in intention to a particular purpose or use; to intend, design, allot; = destine v. 3.
1555Eden Decades 157 Suche as they destinate to eate they geld. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 83 Decking their houses with branches of cypresse: a tree destinated to the dead. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iii. xv, We that are bred up in learning, and destinated by our parents to this end. 1745tr. Columella's Husb. ii. xviii, Having plowed up..the place we have destinated for a meadow. 1826Southey Vind. Eccl. Angl. 303 If they were not destinated to their profession from childhood.
†b. pass. To be designed by nature. Obs.
1578Banister Hist. Man viii. 108 Nature..prouided for the safe conduict of this Nerue, since to the midreif it was destinated. 1635Swan Spec. M. iii. §3 (1643) 53 The night..is destinated or appointed for quiet and sleep. 1660tr. Amyraldus' Treat. conc. Relig. i. vi. 91 The action of seeing, to which the eye is destinated. 1691Ray Creation (1714) 262 Birds..being destinated to fly among the branches of trees. 1742Lond. & Country Brew. i. (ed. 4) B, Our Mother Earth..is destinated to the Service of Man in the Production of Vegetation.
Hence ˈdestinating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1633Prynne Histrio-Mastix i. ii. (R.), The destinating, and denoting of vnprofitable..and vnnecessary inventions. 1652Gaule Magastrom. 130 To depend upon the destinating stars. |