destined

destined
    adj 1: headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often
           used as a combining form as in `college-bound students';
           "children bound for school"; "a flight destined for New
           York" [syn: {bound}, {destined}]
    2: (usually followed by `to') governed by fate; "bound to
       happen"; "an old house destined to be demolished"; "he is
       destined to be famous" [syn: {bound(p)}, {destined}]
    

Destine \Des"tine\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Destined}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Destining}.] [F. destiner, L. destinare; de + the root of
   stare to stand. See {Stand}, and cf. {Obstinate}.]
   To determine the future condition or application of; to set
   apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by
   destiny or by an authoritative decree; to doom; to ordain or
   preordain; to appoint; -- often with the remoter object
   preceded by to or for.
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         We are decreed,
         Reserved, and destined to eternal woe.   --Milton.
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         Till the loathsome opposite
         Of all my heart had destined, did obtain. --Tennyson.
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         Not enjoyment and not sorrow
         Is our destined end or way.              --Longfellow.

   Syn: To design; mark out; determine; allot; choose; intend;
        devote; consecrate; doom.
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52 Moby Thesaurus words for "destined":
      appointed, approaching, bound, certain, coming, designed, desired,
      destinal, determined, devoted, doomed, emergent, eventual,
      extrapolated, fatal, fated, fateful, fatidic, foredoomed,
      foreordained, forthcoming, future, futuristic, hereafter,
      hoped-for, imminent, in store, in the cards, ineluctable,
      inescapable, inevitable, intended, later, marked, meant, nearing,
      ordained, planned, plotted, predestined, predetermined, predicted,
      probable, projected, prophesied, prospective, sure, to come, to-be,
      ultimate, unavoidable, written