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

Allow me, then, to call him here so as to restore his confidence; or, better still, come and show me the portion, which your munificence destines for me.

From Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora by Reid, Mayne

Armstrong talks about independence, and yet destines himself to the worst kind of dependence—slavery to money-getting.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 by Various

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)

He shows not His purposes, but it would seem he destines Feodor, his young son, to be our tsar.

From Boris Godunov: a drama in verse by Hayes, Alfred