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Destined   /dˈɛstɪnd/   Listen
Destined

adjective
1.
Headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in 'college-bound students'.  Synonym: bound.  "A flight destined for New York"
2.
(usually followed by 'to') governed by fate.  Synonym: bound.  "An old house destined to be demolished" , "He is destined to be famous"



Destine

verb
(past & past part. destined; pres. part. destining)
1.
Decree or designate beforehand.  Synonyms: designate, doom, fate.
2.
Design or destine.  Synonyms: designate, intend, specify.






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"Destined" Quotes from Famous Books



... principal business arteries of London. The street now presents a rather ragged appearance on account of the buildings that were torn down to make way for it. However, new structures of fine architecture are rapidly being built and Kingsway is destined to become one of the handsomest boulevards in ...
— British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car - Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, - Wales And Scotland • Thomas D. Murphy

... totality of all believers destined to be received into the kingdom of God (Didache, 9. 10), is the holy Church, (Hermas) because it is brought together and preserved by the Holy Spirit. It is the one Church, not because it presents this unity outwardly, on earth the members of the Church are rather scattered ...
— History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) • Adolph Harnack

... eyes met again. It was reckless of me, but I asked Lady Brandon to introduce me to him. Perhaps it was not so reckless, after all. It was simply inevitable. We would have spoken to each other without any introduction. I am sure of that. Dorian told me so afterwards. He, too, felt that we were destined to know ...
— The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde

... of family life, and the forms of family affection, Hood was simply exemplary. The deaths of his elder brother and of his father left him the principal reliance of his mother, herself destined soon to follow them to the tomb: he was an excellent and devoted son. His affection for one of his sisters, Anne, who also died shortly afterwards, is attested in the beautiful ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood

... which it is necessary to mention under this head, though it belongs to a much earlier stage of man's post-mortem history. It has been stated above that after the death of the physical body the Kamarupa is comparatively quickly formed, and the etheric double cast off—this latter body being destined to slow disintegration, precisely as is the kamarupic shell at a later stage of the proceedings. This etheric shell, however, is not to be met with drifting aimlessly about, as is the variety with ...
— The Astral Plane - Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena • C. W. Leadbeater


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