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)

Not that he deems himself infallible; too many mistakes in following trails prove the contrary; but he thinks that nature destines such sagacity as she has given him, as she destines it to the 'possum.

From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman

The crown to which fate destines thee, and which preternatural agents endeavour to bestow upon thee.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Johnson, Samuel

Nevertheless, If English war-fleets be abreast Boulogne, As these deserters tell, and ripe to land there, It destines Bonaparte to pack him back Across the Rhine again.

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas