destine
/ˈdɛstɪn
/verb [with object]
Intend or choose for a particular purpose or end.This perverted abhorrence of women destines religions to collide with modernity everywhere, for to be modern is to set women free....
- You will recall that this is the scheme that destines all cattle over the age of 30 months to be burnt.
- The sheer scale and scope of the exhibition, combined with the reality that most visitors possessed only a passing knowledge of African political history would have seemed to destine this project for incoherence.
Origin
Middle English (in the sense 'predetermine, decree'): from Old French destiner, from Latin destinare 'make firm, establish'.
Rhymes
- sub-chantership
- sub-chantress
- sub-chantry
- subchantry
- subchaser
- sub-cheese
- sub-cheeze
- subchela
- subchelate
- subcheliform
- sub-chiz
- subchondral
- subchronic
- subcingulum
- subcircuit
- subclass
- subclassify
- subclause
- subclavial
- subclavian
- subclavian artery
- subclavian muscle
- subclavian vein
- subclavicular
- subclavius