destinate

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin destinatus. Computing use by analogy with originate.

Verb

1. To destine, to choose.
2. (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.

3. (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.

Synonyms

• (choose; set destination): destine

Antonyms

• (set destination): originate

Adjective

destinate (comparative more destinate, superlative most destinate)

1. determined
2. (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.

Related terms

• destination
• destine
• destiny

Anagrams

• detainest, tetanised

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Italian

Adjective

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine plural of adjective destinato.

Participle

destinate f pl

1. feminine plural of destinato

Verb

destinate

1. inflection of destinare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Anagrams

• sdentiate
• stendiate

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) dēstināte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of dēstinō

Participle

(deprecated template usage) dēstināte

1. vocative masculine singular of dēstinātus

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.