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2. That which is despaired of. “The mere despair of surgery he cures.” Shak.

Syn. -- Desperation; despondency; hopelessness.
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Despairer (?), n. One who despairs.
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Despairful (?), a. Hopeless. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Despairing, a. Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless. -- Despairingly, adv. -- Despairingness, n.
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Desparple (?), v. t. & i. [OF. desparpeillier.] To scatter; to disparkle. [Obs.] Mandeville.
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Despatch (?), n. & v. Same as .
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Despecificate (?), v. t. [Pref. de- (intens.) + specificate.] To discriminate; to separate according to specific signification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize. [R.]
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Inaptitude and ineptitude have been usefully despecificated. Fitzed. Hall.
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Despecification (?), n. Discrimination.
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Despect (?), n. [L. despectus, fr. despicere. See , n.] Contempt. [R.] Coleridge.
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Despection (?), n. [L. despectio.] A looking down; a despising. [R.] W. Montagu.
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Despeed (?), v. t. To send hastily. [Obs.]
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Despeeded certain of their crew. Speed.
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Despend (?), v. t. To spend; to squander. See . [Obs.]
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Some noble men in Spain can despend £50,000. Howell.
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Desperado (?), n.; pl. Desperadoes (#). [OSp. desperado, p. p. of desperar, fr. L. desperare. See .] A reckless, furious man; a person urged by furious passions, and regardless of consequence; a wild ruffian.
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Desperate (?), a. [L. desperatus, p. p. of desperare. See , and cf. .] 1. Without hope; given to despair; hopeless. [Obs.]
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I am desperate of obtaining her. Shak.
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2. Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable; past cure, or, at least, extremely dangerous; as, a desperate disease; desperate fortune.
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3. Proceeding from, or suggested by, despair; without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious; as, a desperate effort. “Desperate expedients.” Macaulay.
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4. Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous; -- used to mark the extreme predominance of a bad quality.
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A desperate offendress against nature. Shak.
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The most desperate of reprobates. Macaulay.

Syn. -- Hopeless; despairing; desponding; rash; headlong; precipitate; irretrievable; irrecoverable; forlorn; mad; furious; frantic.
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Desperate, n. One desperate or hopeless. [Obs.]
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Desperately, adv. In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately.
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She fell desperately in love with him. Addison.
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Desperateness n. Desperation; virulence.
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Desperation (?), n. [L. desperatio: cf. OF. desperation.] 1. The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.
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This desperation of success chills all our industry. Hammond.
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2. A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury.
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In the desperation of the moment, the officers even tried to cut their way through with their swords. W. Irving.
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Despicability (?), n. Despicableness. [R.] Carlyle.
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Despicable (?), a. [L. despicabilis, fr. despicari to despise; akin to despicere. See .] Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift.

Syn. -- Contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; pitiful; paltry; sordid; low; base. See .
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Despicableness, n. The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.
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Despicably (?), adv. In a despicable or mean manner; contemptibly; as, despicably stingy.
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Despiciency (?), n. [L. despicientia. See .] A looking down; despection. [Obs.]
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Despisable (?), a. [Cf. OF. despisable.] Despicable; contemptible. [R.]
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Despisal (?), n. A despising; contempt. [R.]
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A despisal of religion. South.
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Despise (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Despised (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Despising.] [OF. despis-, in some forms of despire to despise, fr. L. despicere, despectum, to look down upon, despise; de- + spicere, specere, to look. See , and cf. , .] To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of.
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Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Prov. i. 7.
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Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

Syn. -- To contemn; scorn; disdain; slight; undervalue. See .
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Despisedness, n. The state of being despised.
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Despisement (?), n. A despising. [R.] Holland.
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Despiser (?), n. One who despises; a contemner; a scorner.
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Despisingly, adv. Contemptuously.
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Despite (?), n. [OF. despit, F. dépit, fr. L. despectus contempt, fr. despicere. See , and cf. , .] 1. Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate.
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With all thy despite against the land of Israel. Ezek. xxv. 6.
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2. An act of malice, hatred, or defiance; contemptuous defiance; a deed of contempt.
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A despite done against the Most High. Milton.
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Coloq. In despite , in defiance of another's power or inclination. -- Coloq. In despite of , in defiance of; in spite of. See under . “Seized my hand in despite of my efforts to the contrary.” W. Irving. -- Coloq. In your despite , in defiance or contempt of you; in spite of you. [Obs.]
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Despite (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Despited; p. pr. & vb. n. Despiting.] [OF. despitier, fr. L. despectare, intens. of despicere. See , n.] To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.
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Despite, prep. In spite of; against, or in defiance of; notwithstanding; as, despite his prejudices.

Syn. -- See .
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Despiteful (?), a. [See , and cf. .] Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate; malicious. -- Despitefully, adv. -- Despitefulness, n.
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Haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters. Rom. i. 30.
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Pray for them which despitefully use you. Matt. v. 44.
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Let us examine him with despitefulness and fortune. Book of Wisdom ii. 19.
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Despiteous (?), a. [OE. despitous, OF. despiteus, fr. despit; affected in form by E. piteous. See .] Feeling or showing despite; malicious; angry to excess; cruel; contemptuous. [Obs.] “Despiteous reproaches.” Holland.
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Despiteously, adv. Despitefully. [Obs.]
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Despitous (?), a. Despiteous; very angry; cruel. [Obs.]
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He was to sinful man not despitous. Chaucer.

- Despitously, adv. [Obs.]
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Despoil (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Despoiled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Despoiling.] [OF. despoiller, F. dépouiller, L. despoliare, despoliatum; de- + spoliare to strip, rob, spolium spoil, booty. Cf. , .] 1. To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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2. To deprive for spoil; to plunder; to rob; to pillage; to strip; to divest; -- usually followed by of.
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The clothed earth is then bare,
Despoiled is the summer fair. Gower.
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A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled. Macaulay.
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Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss. Milton.

Syn. -- To strip; deprive; rob; bereave; rifle.
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despoil, n. Spoil. [Obs.] Wolsey.
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despoiled adj. having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence.
Syn. -- pillaged, raped, ravaged, sacked.
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despoiler (?), n. One who despoils.
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despoilment (?), n. Despoliation. [R.]
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Despoina prop. n. (Classical Mythology) the daughter of Zeus and Demeter; made queen of the underworld by Pluto in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Proserpina.
Syn. -- Persephone, Kore, Cora.
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despoliation (?), n. [L. despoliatio. See .] A stripping or plundering; spoliation. Bailey.
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despond (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Desponded; p. pr. & vb. n. Desponding.] [L. despondēre, desponsum, to promise away, promise in marriage, give up, to lose (courage); de- + spondēre to promise solemnly. See .] To give up the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view.
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I should despair, or at least despond. Scott's Letters.
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Others depress their own minds, [and] despond at the first difficulty. Locke.
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We wish that . . . desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that the foundations of our national power still stand strong. D. Webster.

Syn. -- , . Despair implies a total loss of hope, which despond does not, at least in every case; yet despondency is often more lasting than despair, or than desperation, which impels to violent action.
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Despond n. Despondency. [Obs.]
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The slough of despond. Bunyan.
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Despondence (?), n. Despondency.
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The people, when once infected, lose their relish for happiness [and] saunter about with looks of despondence. Goldsmith.
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Despondency (?), n. The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind.
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The unhappy prince seemed, during some days, to be sunk in despondency. Macaulay.
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Despondent (?), a. [L. despondens, -entis, p. pr. of despondēre.] Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner. -- Despondently, adv.
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Desponder (?), n. One who desponds.
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Despondingly, adv. In a desponding manner.
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Desponsage (?), n. [From L. desponsus, p. p. See .] Betrothal. [Obs.]
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Ethelbert . . . went peaceably to King Offa for desponsage of Athilrid, his daughter. Foxe.
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Desponsate (?), v. t. [L. desponsatus, p. p. of desponsare, intens. of despondere to betroth. See .] To betroth. [Obs.] Johnson.
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Desponsation (?), n. [L. desponsatio: cf. OF. desponsation.] A betrothing; betrothal. [Obs.]
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For all this desponsation of her . . . she had not set one step toward the consummation of her marriage. Jer. Taylor.
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Desponsory (?), n.; pl. Desponsories (�). A written pledge of marriage. Clarendon.
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Desport (?), v. t. & i. See .
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Despot (?), n. [F. despote, LL. despotus, fr. Gr. despoths master, lord, the second part of which is akin to posis husband, and L. potens. See .] 1. A master; a lord; especially, an absolute or irresponsible ruler or sovereign.
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Irresponsible power in human hands so naturally leads to it, that cruelty has become associated with despot and tyrant. C. J. Smith.
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2. One who rules regardless of a constitution or laws; a tyrant.
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Despotat (?), n. [Cf. F. despotat.] The station or government of a despot; also, the domain of a despot. Freeman.

{ Despotic (?), Despotical (?), } a. [Gr. despotikos: cf. F. despotique.] Having the character of, or pertaining to, a despot; absolute in power; possessing and abusing unlimited power; evincing despotism; tyrannical; arbitrary. -- Despotically, adv. -- Despoticalness, n.
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Despotism (?), n. [Cf. F. despotisme.] 1. The power, spirit, or principles of a despot; absolute control over others; tyrannical sway; tyranny. “The despotism of vice.” Byron.
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2. A government which is directed by a despot; a despotic monarchy; absolutism; autocracy.
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Despotism . . . is the only form of government which may with safety to itself neglect the education of its infant poor. Bp. Horsley.
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Despotist, n. A supporter of despotism. [R.]
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Despotize (?), v. t. To act the despot.
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Despread (?), v. t. & i. See .
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Despumate (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Despumated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Despumating (?).] [L. despumatus, p. p. of despumare to despume; de- + spumare to foam, froth, spuma froth, scum.] To throw off impurities in spume; to work off in foam or scum; to foam.
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Despumation (?), n. [L. despumatio: cf. F. despumation.] The act of throwing up froth or scum; separation of the scum or impurities from liquids; scumming; clarification.
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Despume (?), v. t. [Cf. F. despumer. See .] To free from spume or scum. [Obs.]
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If honey be despumed. Holland.
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Desquamate (?), v. i. [L. desquamatus, p. p. of desquamare to scale off; de- + squama scale.] (Med.) To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases.
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Desquamation (?), n. [Cf. F. desquamation.] (Med.) The separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones.

{ Desquamative (?), Desquamatory (?), } a. Of, pertaining to, or attended with, desquamation.
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Desquamatory, n. (Surg.) An instrument formerly used in removing the laminæ of exfoliated bones.
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Dess (?), n. Dais. [Obs.]
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Dessert (?), n. [F., fr. desservir to remove from table, to clear the table; pref. des- (L. dis-) + servir to serve, to serve at table. See .] A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner.
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“An 't please your honor,” quoth the peasant,
“This same dessert is not so pleasant.” Pope.
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Coloq. Dessert spoon , a spoon used in eating dessert; a spoon intermediate in size between a teaspoon and a tablespoon. -- Coloq. Dessert-spoonful , n., pl. Coloq. Dessert-spoonfuls , as much as a dessert spoon will hold, usually reckoned at about two and a half fluid drams.
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Destemper (?), n. [Cf. F. détrempe, fr. détremper.] A kind of painting. See .
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Destin (?), n. [Cf. F. destin.] Destiny. [Obs.] Marston.
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Destinable (?), a. [Cf. OF. destinable.] Determined by destiny; fated. Chaucer.
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Destinably, adv. In a destinable manner.
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Destinal (?), a. Determined by destiny; fated. [Obs.] “The order destinal.” Chaucer.
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Destinate (?), a. [L. destinatus, p. p. of destinare. See .] Destined. [Obs.] “Destinate to hell.” Foxe.
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Destinate (?), v. t. To destine, design, or choose. [Obs.] “That name that God . . . did destinate.” Udall.
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Destination (?), n. [L. destinatio determination: cf. F. destination destination.] 1. The act of destining or appointing.
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2. Purpose for which anything is destined; predetermined end, object, or use; ultimate design.
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3. The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.

Syn. -- Appointment; design; purpose; intention; destiny; lot; fate; end.
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Destine (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Destined (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Destining.] [F. destiner, L. destinare; de + the root of stare to stand. See , and cf. .] 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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Destinist (?), n. A believer in destiny; a fatalist. [R.]
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Destiny (?), n.; pl. Destinies (#). [OE. destinee, destene, F. destinée, from destiner. See .] 1. That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.
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Thither he
Will come to know his destiny. Shak.
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No man of woman born,
Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. Bryant.
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2. The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.
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But who can turn the stream of destiny? Spenser.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. Longfellow.
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Coloq. The Destinies (Anc. Myth.), the three Parcæ, or Fates; the supposed powers which preside over human life, and determine its circumstances and duration.
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Marked by the Destinies to be avoided. Shak.
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