destines

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A score that destines young doctors-to-be to a life of ennui in a job they do not enjoy, because they could not match into the competitive specialty of their dreams.

From Scientific American • Mar. 12, 2020

He is enraged at the suspicion that life, though past, may not be finished—that Faust's human soul may yet elude that hell to which he destines it ... that of annihilation.

From The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' by Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard)

An ambitious man has a son whom he destines to a learned profession.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various

I indeed recognise my enemy," said she to the woodcutter; "beware of him, and believe that it is with no good intention he destines your daughter for the bride of a king.

From The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

And all the little mighty things that cheer The closing day from quiet year to year, I leave to those whom benignant fate Or merit destines to the wedded state.

From The Little Tea Book by Hood, George Washington