destinate (destinates, present participle destinating; simple past and past participle destinated)

1. (possibly nonstandard) To destine, to choose.
2. (possibly nonstandard) To set a destination for (something), to send (something) to a particular destination.
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.

• (choose; set destination) destine

• (antonym(s) of “set destination”): originate

destinate

1. Determined.
2. (obsolete) Destined.
   • 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, “Certain Letters vvritten by M. Bradford to Other of His Frendes”, in Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC ↗, book V, page [1262] ↗:

     But because Christe dwelleth in you (as he doth by faithe) therfore stirreth he vp his first begoten sonne, the world, to seke how to disquiet you, to robbe you, to spoile you, to destroy you: and perchance your deare father, to trye and to make knowen vnto you, and to þe world, that ye are destinate to an other dwellyng then here on earthe, to an other citye then mannes eyes hath sene at any tyme: […]

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