destine 
destine (des'tin), v. t. ; pret. and pp. destined, 
ppr. destining. [< ME. destenen, desteynen, < OP. 
destiner, F. destiner = Pr. Sp. Pg. destinar = It. 
destinare, < L. destinare, make fast, establish, 
determine, design, intend, destine, appar. < de- 
intensive + "stan-are, an assumed form, < stare, 
stand: see stand."] 1. To set apart, ordain, or 
appoint to a use, purpose, office, or place. 
The rain conies down, it comes without our call, 
Each pattering drop knows well its destined place. 
Janes Very, Poems, p. 87. 
The tyrant could not bear to see the triumph of those 
whom he had destined to the gallows and the ooutertng- 
block. Macaulay, Nngent'a Hampdeu. 
What fitter use 
Was ever husband's money destined to? 
Browning, Ring and Book, II. 139. 
2. To appoint or predetermine unalterably, as 
by a divine decree ; doom ; devote. 
And makes us with reflective Trouble see 
That all is destin'd, which we fancy free. 
Prior, Solomon, iii. 
We are decreed, 
Reserved, and destined to eternal woe. 
MUton, P. L.,il. 160. 
Not enjoyment and not sorrow 
Is our destined end or way. 
Longfellow, Psalm of Life. 
=Syn. To intend, mark out, consecrate, dedicate, decree, 
allot. 
destinezite (des-ti-na'zit), . [After M. Det- 
tinez.] A variety of diadochite from Yis6 in 
Belgium. 
destinism (des'ti-nizm), . [< destiny + -ism.] 
Fatalism. E. D. [Rare.] 
destinist (des'ti-nist), n. [< destiny + -ist.] 
A believer in destiny. Imp. Diet. [Rare.] 
destiny (des'ti-ui), n. ; pi. destinies (-niz). [< 
ME. destynie, destenye, destenee, destene, distyne, 
< OF. dcstinee, F. destinee = Pr. destinada = It. 
destinata, < ML. as if *destinuta, destiny, prop, 
pp. fern, of lj. destinare, destine: see destine.'] 1. 
An irresistible tendency of certain events to 
come about by force of predetermination, what- 
ever efforts maybe made to prevent them ; over- 
ruling necessity ; fate. 
On mouday by goode distt/ne we shall meve alle to go 
towarde Clarence. ' Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 682. 
You are three men of sin, whom destiny 
(That hath to instrument this lower world 
And what is in't) the never-surfeited sea 
Hath caus'd to belch up. Shale., Tempest, iii. 3. 
With the Stoicks they [the Turks] attribute all accidents 
to destiny, and constellations at birth. 
Sandys, Travailes, p. 45. 
Whate'er betides, by destiny 'tis done ; 
And better bear like men than vainly seek to shun. 
Dryden, Pal. and Arc., 1. 249. 
2. That which is predetermined and sure to 
come true. 
The kith that hee comme fro or hee com till, 
Hee shall bee doluen [buried] & ded as denlenie falles. 
Allsaunder of Macedoine (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1026. 
'Tis destiny unshunnable, like death. 
Shut., Othello, iii. 3. 
3. That which is to become of any person or 
thing in the future ; fortune; lot; luck: often 
in the plural. 
Now wot i ueuer in this world of wham y am come, 
ne what destene me is (list, but god do his wille ! 
William of Paleriie (E. E. T. S.), 1. 315. 
As a Fish cannot live out of Water, no more was it in 
the Destiny of this King [Stephen] to live out of Trouble. 
Baker, Chronicles, p. 51. 
The destinies of the human race were staked on the 
same cast with the freedom of the English people. 
Macaulay. 
The revolutions in England could not but affect the des- 
tinies of the colonies. Bancroft, Hist. U. S., I. 195. 
4. [cap.'] pi. In classical myth., the Fates or 
Pares; the powers supposed to preside over 
human life. See fate. 
Destinies do cut his thread of life. Shak., Pericles, i. 2. 
The destinies, or the natures and fates of things are 
Justly made Pan's sisters. Bacon, Fable of Pan. 
The Destinies, I hope, have pointed out 
Our ends alike, that thou mayst die for love, 
Though not for me. 
Beau, and Fl, King and No King, iv. 2. 
Manifest destiny, that which clearly appears destined to 
come to pass ; a future state, condition, or event which can 
be foreseen with certainty, or is regarded as inevitable. 
This phrase has been much used in American politics 
especially about the time of the Mexican war, by those 
who believed that the United States were destined in time 
to occupy the entire continent. 
The manifest destiny of the " Anglo-Saxon " race and the 
huge dimensions of our country are favourite topics with 
Fourth-of-July orators, but they are none the less inter- 
esting on that account when considered from the point of 
view of the historian. J. Fiske, Amer. Pol. Ideas, p. 102. 
=Syn. Destiny, Fate, Doom. Fate is stronger than des- 
tiny, and less the appointment of a personal being or oth- 
er discernible cause; but the words are often used inter- 
changeably. Doom is an unhappy destiny. 
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No man of woman bom, 
Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. 
Bryant, Iliad, vi. 
Love is not in our choice, but in our /ate. 
Dryden, Pal. and Arc., 1. 328. 
In the midst of its revels [the Greek world] trembled at 
the thonelit of the doom that was awaiting it ; despair was 
at its heart. Faiths of the World, p. 172. 
destituentt (des-tit'u-ent), . [< L. destitu- 
en(t-)s, ppr. of destifuc're', "forsake ; improp. used 
in sense of 'wanting': see destitute.] Want- 
ing; deficient. 
When any condition ... is destituent or wanting, the 
duty itself falls. Jer. Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, I. 44B. 
destitute (des'ti-tut), . *. [< L. destitutus, 
pp. of destituere (> F. destituer = Pr. Sp. Pg. 
destituir = It. destituire), set down, put away, 
leave alone, forsake, abandon, desert, < de, 
down, away, + statucre, set, put, place, < status, 
a position: see statute, state, and cf. constitute, 
institute.] If. To forsake; desert; abandon; 
leave to neglect. 
We see also that the science of medicine, if it be desti- 
tuted and forsaken by natural philosophy, it is not much 
better than an empirical practice. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 182. 
It is the sinfullest thing in the world to forsake or des- 
titute a plantation [colony]. Bacon, Plantations. 
2. To deprive, as of property, preferment, or 
office ; divest : used absolutely or with of. [Ar- 
chaic.] 
He was willing to part with his places, upon hopes not 
to be destituted, but to be preferred to one of the baron's 
places in Ireland. Bacon, Letters, p. 48 (Ord MS.). 
I have given you . . . the amount of a considerable 
fortune, and have destituted myself, for the purpose of 
realizing it, of nearly four times the amount. 
Shelley, To Godwin, in Dowden, II. 323. 
3f. To disappoint. 
It is good in all cases for every man to understand not 
only his own advantages, but also his disadvantages ; lest 
... he be needlessly offended when his expectation is 
destituted. Fotherby, Atheomastix, p. 8. 
destitute (des'ti-tut), a. and . [< ME. desti- 
tute = F. destitue = Sp. Pg. destituido = It. de- 
stituto, destituito,<.Ij. destitutus, pp. of destituere, 
forsake, abandon, desert : see destitute, v.] I. 
a. 1. Deprived; bereft; under complete lack or 
privation, whether of what has been lost or of 
what has never been possessed: with of: as, 
destitute of honor or o/pmdence ; destitute o/the 
necessaries of life. 
Of all places, Suez is the most destitute of every thing 
that the earth produces. They have neither water, grass, 
corn, nor any sort of herb or tree near it. 
Pococke, Description of the East, I. 13C. 
Totally destitute of all shadow of influence. Burke. 
The moon . . . has withered into a dry, volcanic cinder, 
destitute of water and air. 
Dauyon, Nature and the Bible, p. 90. 
2. Without means ; indigent; needy; poor: as, 
the family has been left destitute. =Syn, 2. Penni- 
less, necessitous, pinched, distressed. 
II. n. sing, and pi. A destitute person, or des- 
titute persons collectively. 
He will regard the prayer of the destitute. Ps. cii. 17. 
Have pity on this poor destitute. 
P. St. John, Sermons (1737), p. 224. 
destituteness (des'ti-tut-nes), . The state of 
being destitute ; destitution. [Rare.] 
destitution (des-ti-tu'shon), n. [= F. destitu- 
tion = Sp. destitution = Pg. destituicSo = It. 
destituzione, < L. destitutio(n-), a forsaking, < de- 
stituere, forsake: see destitute.] 1. Depriva- 
tion ; absence of anything desired. 
I am unhappy thy mother and thyself at a distance 
from me ; and what can compensate for such a destitution ? 
Sterne, Letters, xci. 
2. Deprivation of office ; dismissal ; discharge. 
See destitute, v., 2. [Rare.] 
The man [the unjust steward] not so much as attempt- 
ing a defence, his destitution follows : "Give an account 
of thy stewardship : for thou mayest be no longer steward. " 
Abp. Trench, On the Parables, p. 328. 
3. Deprivation or absence of means; indigence; 
poverty; want. 
Left in so great destitution. Hooker. 
=Syn. 3. Indigence, Penury, etc. (see poverty); privation, 
distress. 
desto (des'to), adv. [It., awaked, lively, ac- 
tive, brisk, ^ destare, awake, rouse, renew, < L. 
de, off, away, + stare, stand.] In a sprightly 
manner: a direction in music. 
destraint, '. An obsolete form of distrain. 
destra mano (des'tra ma'no). [It.: destra, 
fern, of destro, < L. dexter, right ; mano, < L. ma- 
nus, hand: see dexter and manual.] In >.<ic, 
the right hand: in pianoforte-music used as a 
direction over a passage to be played with the 
right hand. Abbreviated I). Af. 
destreinet, v. A Middle English form of dis- 
train. 
destruct 
destrert, [ME. dcstrer, destrere, dextrer, < 
OF. destrier, dcstrer = Pr. destrier = It. destri- 
ere, detstriero, < ML. dextrarins, a war-horse (so 
called because led at the right hand until want- 
ed in battle), < L. dexter, right hand : see dexter.] 
A war-horse. 
By him baiteth his dextrer 
Of herbes fyue and goode. 
Chaucer, Sir Thopas, 1. 202. 
As for the Duke, we left him on foot, an enemy as dan- 
gerous on foot as when mounted on his destrier. 
E. A. Freeman, Norman Conquest, III. 325. 
destriet, T. t. A Middle English form of destroy . 
destriert, See destrer. 
destroy (des-troi'), v. t. [< ME. destroyen, de- 
stroien, destruyen, destryen, destruen, destrien, 
distroyen, etc. (also by apheresis stroyen : see 
stray), < OF. destruire, F. detruire = Pr. Sp. Pg. 
destniir = It. destruire, destruere, distruggere, < 
L. destruere, pull down, ruin, destroy, < de- priv. 
+ struere, build : see structure, construct, in- 
struct, etc., and also destruct, destruction, etc.] 
1 . To pull down ; unbuild (that which has been 
built or constructed) ; demolish: as, to destroy 
a building or a fortification ; to destroy a city. 
On the west side the Cyclopean wall of the acropolis of 
Mycenre is almost totally destroyed for a distance of forty- 
five feet. N. A. Ken., CXXXIX. 622. 
2. To overthrow ; lay waste ; ruin ; make des- 
olate. 
Sir, lo yonder theym by whos comaundement the londe 
is destroied of yow and youre barouus. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 598. 
Go up against this land, and destroy it. Isa. xxxvi. 10. 
Solyman sent his army, which burnt and destroyed the 
country villages. Kiwlles, Hist. Turks. 
3. To kill; slay; extirpate: applied to men or 
animals. 
Ye shall destroy all this people. Num. xxxii. 15. 
'Tis that unruly regiment within me, that will defttroy 
me. Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, ii. 10. 
If him by force he can destroy, or, worse, 
By some false guile pervert. Milton, P. L., iii. 91. 
4. To bring to naught ; put an end to ; anni- 
hilate ; obliterate entirely ; cause to cease, or 
to cease to be : as, to destroy one's happiness or 
peace of mind by worry. 
Ouer-plente pryde norsshetll, ther pouerte destrueth hit. 
Piers Plumnan (C), xiii. 234. 
Our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin 
might be destroyed. Rom. vi. 6. 
Venice is a still more remarkable instance : in her his- 
tory we see nothing but the state ; aristocracy had de- 
stroyed every seed of genius and virtue. 
Macaulay, Mitford's Hist. Greece. 
The fury of a corrupt populace may destroy in one hour 
what centuries have slowly consolidated. 
Story, Salem, Sept. 18, 1828. 
5. To counteract or render of no avail; take 
away, detract from, or vitiate the power, force, 
value, use, or beauty of ; ruin ; spoil : as, to de- 
stroy a person's influence. 
The exceptions do not destroy the authority of the rule. 
Macaulay, West. Reviewer's Def. of Mill. 
6. To refute; disprove. 
Destroy his fib or sophistry, in vain, 
The creature's at his dirty work again ! 
Pojie, Prol. to Satires, 1. 91. 
It is by making the unphilosophie inference that be- 
cause we cannot know the objective reality therefore 
there exists none, that idealism dextrous itself. 
J. Fiske, Cosmic Philos., I. 79. 
DestroyingangelS. See <;*. = Syn. Tocousume, throw 
down, raze, subvert, dismantle, desolate, devastate, extin- 
guish, quench, eradicate, root out. 
destroyable (des-troi'a-bl), a. [< destroy + 
-able.] Capable of being destroyed; destruc- 
tible. [Rare.] 
Propagating themselves in a manner everywhere, and 
scarcely destroyable by the weather, the plough, or any 
art. Derha-tn, Physico-Theol., iv. 11. 
destroyer (des-troi'er), n. [< ME. destroyere, 
distriere; < destroy + -erl.] One who or that 
which destroys ; one who or that which kills, 
ruins, or makes desolate. 
By powring-forth the pure and plentious Flood 
Of his most precious Water-mixed Blood, 
Preserue his People from the drad Destroyer. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Lawe. 
Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, 
and were destroyed of the destroyer. 1 Cor. x. 10. 
To be styled great conquerours, 
Patrons of mankind, gods, and sons of gods ; 
Destroyers rightlier call'd, and plagues of men. 
.Milieu. P. L., xi. 697. 
destructt (de-strukt'), v. t. [< L. (testritctust. 
pp. of destruere, destroy : see destroy. Cf. con- 
struct, instmct.] To destroy. 
The creatures Belonging to them . . . either wholly de- 
structed or marvellously corrupted from that they were 
before. J. Mede, Paraphrase on St. Peter (1642), p. 12. 
