destinate
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin destinatus. Computing use by analogy with originate.
Verb
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- To destine, to choose.
- (possibly nonstandard) To set a destination for (something), to send (something) to a particular destination.
- 1997 September 11, "Tom Watson", Hoe does FX work?, in comp.dcom.telecom.tech, Usenet:
- Now days, it can probably be done with a programming setup in the originating/destinating switches, and not involve a full time channel.
- 1997 September 11, "Tom Watson", Hoe does FX work?, in comp.dcom.telecom.tech, Usenet:
- (possibly nonstandard) To be scheduled to arrive at, as a destination.
- 2009, Statistical Abstract of the United States
- Prices for a mail piece weighing up to a half-pound range from $12.60 if it destinates in zones 1 and 2 to $19.50 if it destinates in zone 8.
- 2009, Statistical Abstract of the United States
Synonyms
- (choose; set destination): destine
Antonyms
- (set destination): originate
Adjective
destinate (comparative more destinate, superlative most destinate)
- determined
- (obsolete) destined
- (Can we date this quote by John Foxe and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- They hold, moreover, to be no purgatory, nor that the suffrages of the church do avail the dead, either to lessen the pain of them that be destinate to hell, or to increase the glory of them that be ordained to salvation.
- (Can we date this quote by John Foxe and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
Related terms
Anagrams
Italian
Adjective
- (deprecated template usage) Feminine plural of adjective destinato.
Participle
destinate f pl
Verb
destinate
- inflection of destinare:
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) dēstināte
Participle
(deprecated template usage) dēstināte
References
- “destinate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- destinate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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