destinate

des·ti·nate
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verb

To destine, to choose.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

verbdestinate (third-person singular simple present destinates, present participle destinating, simple past and past participle destinated)

present singular third person destinates · participle present destinating · participle past destinated · past destinated

  1. nonstandardpossiblyrareTo destine, to choose.

    Synonyms: destine

  2. nonstandardpossiblyrareTo set a destination for (something), to send (something) to a particular destination.

    Now days, it can probably be done with a programming setup in the originating/destinating switches, and not involve a full time channel.

    1997 September 11, Tom Watson, “Hoe does FX work?”, in comp.dcom.telecom.tech (Usenet)

    Synonyms: originate

  3. nonstandardpossiblyrareTo be scheduled to arrive at, as a destination.

    Prices for a mail piece weighing up to a half-pound range from $12.60 if it destinates in zones 1 and 2 to $19.50 if it destinates in zone 8.

    2009, Statistical Abstract of the United States
adjectivedestinate (comparative more destinate, superlative most destinate)

comparative more destinate · superlative most destinate

  1. nonstandardobsoletepossiblyrareDetermined, destined.
  2. nonstandardobsoletepossiblyrareDestined, destinated; ordained, fated.
    1 more example

    But because Christe dwelleth in you (as he doth by faithe) therfore stirreth he vp his first begoten sonne, the world, to seke how to disquiet you, to robbe you, to spoile you, to destroy you: and perchance your deare father, to trye and to make knowen vnto you, and to þe world, that ye are destinate to an other dwellyng then here on earthe, to an other citye then mannes eyes hath sene at any tyme: […]

    1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, “Certain Letters vvritten by M. Bradford to Other of His Frendes”, in Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC, book V, page [1262]

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo destine, to choose.

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verbTo set a destination for (something), to send (something) to a particular destination.

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Origin

  1. Latindēstinātus
  2. Englishdestinate

The adjective is first attested in the first part of the 15th century, the verb in 1490, both in Middle English; borrowed from Latin dēstinātus, perfect passive participle of dēstinō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix); doublet of destine. Computing/postal use by analogy with originate. Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

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