DESTINE, verb transitive [Latin] 1. To set, ordain or appoint to a use, purpose, state or place. We destine a son to the ministerial office; a house for a place of worship; a ship for the London trade or to Lisbon; and we are all destined to a future state of happiness or misery. 2. To fix unalterable, as by a divine decree; as the destined hour of death. 3. To doom; to devote; to appoint unalterably.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI