单词 | destiny |
释义 | destinyn. I. As a fact or condition. 1. a. That which is destined or fated to happen; predetermined events collectively; = fate n. 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > future events > [noun] > destiny or fate whatec1200 gracec1325 destiny1340 portionc1350 sortc1405 weird1508 dolec1520 foredoom1563 fate1667 destinate1675 fatality1699 kismet1849 ultimatum1861 foredestiny1872 ming1937 the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > that which is ordained by fate shapeOE whatec1200 destiny1340 ordinance1340 predestinya1425 eure1430 predestin1558 fate1667 1340–70 Alisaunder 1026 Hee shall bee doluen and ded as destenie falles. c1425 Wyntoun Cron. vi. xiii. 134 And sua ware brokyn Destyne. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 120 Desteyne, or happe..fatum. 1717 S. Clarke tr. G. W. Leibniz in Papers between Leibnitz & Clarke v. 165 There is Fatum Christianum, A certain destiny of every thing, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God. 1849 J. G. Whittier Crisis in Voices of Freedom x This day we fashion Destiny, our web of Fate we spin. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > [noun] > an inspired prophecy visionc1290 prophecyc1330 vaticiny1587 destiny1602 vaticination1603 prevision1635 weird1785 1602 W. Fulbecke Pandectes 40 Æneas commeth into Italie to maintaine warre by destinies, and oracles. 2. That which is destined to happen to a particular person, country, institution, etc.; (one's) appointed lot or fortune; what one is destined to do or suffer; = fate n. 3b. ΚΠ c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 49 Ȝif me be dyȝt a destyne due to haue. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 250 If so be my destynee be shape By eterne word to dyen in prisoun. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xxix. 582 On monday by goode distyne we shall meve alle to go towarde Clarence. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. xcj The common peope lamented their miserable destiny. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. I5 Oh, I was borne to it, it was my destonie. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. ix. 82 The auncient saying..Hanging and wiuing goes by destinie . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. v. 17 Thither he Will come, to know his Destinie . View more context for this quotation 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 63 The reward and destiny due to Traytors overtakes them. 1812 J. Wilson Isle of Palms ii. 586 Sublimely reconciled To meet and bear her destiny. 1841 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. viii. 117 All literary people die overwrought; it is the destiny of the class. 3. In weakened sense (cf. destine v. 2): What in the course of events will become or has become of a person or thing; ultimate condition; = fate n. 4 (Also in plural; cf. fortunes.) ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > [noun] > ultimate condition or destiny destiny1555 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. i. f. 58 The vnfortunate destenie of Petrus de Vmbria. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 272 Jacob was murdered..and Issuff died of an Imposthume. Their Children also had little better destiny. 1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Oct. (1965) I. 277 They seem worthy of another Destiny. a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Hist. (1855) iv. 120 That battle which settled the destiny of Saxon independence. 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid iii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 151 Troy's strength broken, her destinies waning. II. As an agency or agent. 4. a. The power or agency by which, according to various systems of philosophy and popular belief, all events, or certain particular events, are unalterably predetermined; supernatural or divine pre-ordination; overruling or invincible necessity; = fate n. 1 (Often personified; see also 5.) ΚΠ c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Dido. 952 He..sayleth forth..Towarde Ytayle, as wolde destanee. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1752 How þat destine schulde þat day dele hym his wyrde. c1530 T. More Let. Impugnynge J. Fryth in Wks. 839/2 Some ascribing all thyng to destyny without any power of mannes free wyll at all. 1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 19 It seemed that some furious destinie lead him headlong to his end. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. iii. 53 Three men of sinne, whom destiny That hath to instrument this lower world..the..Sea, Hath caus'd to belch vp. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 58 Had his powerful Destiny ordaind Me some inferiour Angel. View more context for this quotation 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xviii. 678 The force Of ruthless Destiny. 1867 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood I. i. 1 That destiny which took form to the old pagans as a gray mist high beyond the heads of their gods. 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Eclogues iv, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 27 ‘Ages blest, roll onward!’ the Sisters of Destiny cried. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] weirdc888 whatec1200 fortunea1300 cuta1340 destinyc1374 fatec1374 destin1590 jade1594 fatalitya1631 ananke1860 c1374 G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite 339 Thus holdithe me my destenye a wrechche. c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 757 My dere destyne Me ches to hys make al-þaȝ vnmete. 1642 J. Denham Cooper's Hill 6 Had thy great destiny but given thee skill To know as well, as power to act her will. 5. Mythology. The goddess of destiny; plural the three goddesses held, in Greek and Roman mythology, to determine the course of human life; the Fates: see fate n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > the Fates weirdsc725 ParcaeeOE the three sistersa1400 destiny14.. the Weird Sistersc1400 (the) fatal dames, ladies, sisters1552 the three Fatals1575 fate1600 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 573/35 Cloto, on of thre shapsisterys vel shappystrys [vel destynyes]. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. ii. 15 Seuen faire branches..Some..dried by natures course, Some..by the Destinies cut. View more context for this quotation 1623 W. Lisle in tr. Ælfric Saxon Treat. Old & New Test. Ded. 27 So charge the Destinies their spindle runne. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 523. ¶7 I shall not allow the Destinies to have had an Hand in the Deaths of the several Thousands who have been slain in the late War. 1814 R. Southey Roderick xxi. 345 We, poor slaves..must drag The Car of Destiny, where'er she drives Inexorable and blind. 1857 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. (ed. 3) I. 125 The adamantine distaff which Destiny holds. Compounds General attributive uses. ΚΠ 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Desteny readers or tellers, Fatidici. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † destinyadj. Obsolete. rare. Destined. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [adjective] > fated or predestined born1357 destinablec1374 destinalc1374 fatalc1374 predestinatec1384 foreordainedc1420 ordinate?a1425 destiny?1473 preordinatea1475 prefinitec1475 pointed1523 predestined1545 determined1546 ordinated1562 predestinated1571 preordained?1580 fore-appointeda1586 predeterminate1601 predetermined1601 destinated1604 destinate1605 destined1609 predesigned1668 predefinite1678 cut and dry1710 fated1715 weirded1820 laid-down1839 foreordinated1858 predesignated1883 predestinatory1893 preset1926 predefined1929 predestine1962 bashert1963 ?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) II. lf. 198 Shewyng hym by certayne signes that hit was destyne that another shold make the Cyte. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vii. ii. 36 All hail thou grond and land,..quod he, in hy, By the fatis onto me destany. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † destinyv. Obsolete. a. transitive. To destine, foreordain, predetermine. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [verb (transitive)] waryc725 accurselOE for-waryc1175 cursec1200 bana1275 beshrewc1325 shrew1338 maledighta1400 destinyc1400 damn1477 detest1533 beshrompa1549 widdle1552 becurse1570 malison1588 execrate1612 imprecate1613 maledict1780 the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > predestine or predetermine [verb (transitive)] shapea1000 dightc1000 besee1297 weirda1300 destinec1300 ordainc1390 ettlea1400 destinyc1400 eure1428 fortunec1430 foreordainc1440 order1532 preordain1533 predefine1542 prefine1545 destinate1548 fore-pointa1557 fore-appoint1561 pre-ordinate1565 foreset1573 forepurpose1581 sort1592 predestinate1593 predetermine1601 pre-appoint1603 forecall1613 fatea1616 predesign1630 predeterminate1637 pre-order1640 predestine1642 ordinate1850 foreordinate1858 preset1926 c1400 Test. Love (1560) iii. 298/1 If in that manner bee said, God toforne have destenied both badde and her bad werkes. 1520 Chron. Eng. ii. f. 10v/1 That lande is destenyed and ordeyned for you and for your people. ?1593 H. Chettle Kind-harts Dreame sig. H1v Hidden treasure is by spirits possest, and they keepe it onely for them, to whome it is destinied. 1652 J. Wright tr. J.-P. Camus Nature's Paradox 63 The high Providence of Heaven..destinying me to misfortune. b. To devote to some fate by imprecation. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > [verb (transitive)] waryc725 accurselOE forcurse1154 cursec1175 for-waryc1175 bana1275 ashend1297 to bid (something) misadventurec1330 shrew1338 beshrew1377 maledighta1400 to fare (also go, come) to mischancec1400 defyc1430 destinya1450 condemn1489 detest1533 adjure1539 beshrompa1549 widdle1552 becurse1570 malison1588 consecrate1589 exaugurate1600 execrate1612 imprecate1616 blasta1634 damna1640 vote1644 to swear at ——1680 devote1749 maledict1780 comminate1801 bless1814 peste1824 cuss1863 bedamn1875 mugger1951 a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 108 It is gret perille for fader and moder to curse her children ne forto destenie hem vnto any wicked thinge. c. To divine or prognosticate (what is destined to happen). (Cf. destiny n. 1b.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > prophesy [verb (transitive)] prophesy1372 betoken1382 prophetize?a1400 spaea1400 tella1400 writec1405 ossc1450 destiny?1549 fore-prophesy1581 forewarn1582 vaticinate1652 ?1549 J. Hooper Declar. 10 Commandm. iv Such as give faith unto..such as destinieth what shall happen..committeth idolatry. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1340adj.?1473v.c1400 |
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