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单词 destiny
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destinyn.

/ˈdɛstɪni/
Forms: Middle English destine, destene(é), destane(e, Middle English destyne, destynie, destany(e, Middle English–1500s destenie, destenye, Middle English–1600s desteny, Middle English destinee, destynee, desteyne, destenye, destayne, disteyne, distyne, Middle English–1500s destyny, destonie, destonye, 1500s–1600s destinie, 1500s– destiny.
Etymology: Middle English, < Old French destinée (12th cent. in Littré) = Provençal destinada , Italian destinata , feminine noun from Latin past participle dēstinātus , dēstināta : see -ade suffix suffix.
I. As a fact or condition.
1.
a. That which is destined or fated to happen; predetermined events collectively; = fate n. 3a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > occurrence > future events > [noun] > destiny or fate
whatec1200
gracec1325
destiny1340
portionc1350
sortc1405
weird1508
dolec1520
foredoom1563
fate1667
destinate1675
fatality1699
kismet1849
ultimatum1861
foredestiny1872
ming1937
the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > that which is ordained by fate
shapeOE
whatec1200
destiny1340
ordinance1340
predestinya1425
eure1430
predestin1558
fate1667
1340–70 Alisaunder 1026 Hee shall bee doluen and ded as destenie falles.
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. vi. xiii. 134 And sua ware brokyn Destyne.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 120 Desteyne, or happe..fatum.
1717 S. Clarke tr. G. W. Leibniz in Papers between Leibnitz & Clarke v. 165 There is Fatum Christianum, A certain destiny of every thing, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God.
1849 J. G. Whittier Crisis in Voices of Freedom x This day we fashion Destiny, our web of Fate we spin.
b. A declaration or prognostication of what is fated to happen. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > [noun] > an inspired prophecy
visionc1290
prophecyc1330
vaticiny1587
destiny1602
vaticination1603
prevision1635
weird1785
1602 W. Fulbecke Pandectes 40 Æneas commeth into Italie to maintaine warre by destinies, and oracles.
2. That which is destined to happen to a particular person, country, institution, etc.; (one's) appointed lot or fortune; what one is destined to do or suffer; = fate n. 3b.
ΚΠ
c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 49 Ȝif me be dyȝt a destyne due to haue.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 250 If so be my destynee be shape By eterne word to dyen in prisoun.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xxix. 582 On monday by goode distyne we shall meve alle to go towarde Clarence.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. xcj The common peope lamented their miserable destiny.
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. I5 Oh, I was borne to it, it was my destonie.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. ix. 82 The auncient saying..Hanging and wiuing goes by destinie . View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. v. 17 Thither he Will come, to know his Destinie . View more context for this quotation
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 63 The reward and destiny due to Traytors overtakes them.
1812 J. Wilson Isle of Palms ii. 586 Sublimely reconciled To meet and bear her destiny.
1841 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. viii. 117 All literary people die overwrought; it is the destiny of the class.
3. In weakened sense (cf. destine v. 2): What in the course of events will become or has become of a person or thing; ultimate condition; = fate n. 4 (Also in plural; cf. fortunes.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > [noun] > ultimate condition or destiny
destiny1555
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. i. f. 58 The vnfortunate destenie of Petrus de Vmbria.
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 272 Jacob was murdered..and Issuff died of an Imposthume. Their Children also had little better destiny.
1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Oct. (1965) I. 277 They seem worthy of another Destiny.
a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Hist. (1855) iv. 120 That battle which settled the destiny of Saxon independence.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid iii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 151 Troy's strength broken, her destinies waning.
II. As an agency or agent.
4.
a. The power or agency by which, according to various systems of philosophy and popular belief, all events, or certain particular events, are unalterably predetermined; supernatural or divine pre-ordination; overruling or invincible necessity; = fate n. 1 (Often personified; see also 5.)
ΚΠ
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Dido. 952 He..sayleth forth..Towarde Ytayle, as wolde destanee.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1752 How þat destine schulde þat day dele hym his wyrde.
c1530 T. More Let. Impugnynge J. Fryth in Wks. 839/2 Some ascribing all thyng to destyny without any power of mannes free wyll at all.
1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 19 It seemed that some furious destinie lead him headlong to his end.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. iii. 53 Three men of sinne, whom destiny That hath to instrument this lower world..the..Sea, Hath caus'd to belch vp. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 58 Had his powerful Destiny ordaind Me some inferiour Angel. View more context for this quotation
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xviii. 678 The force Of ruthless Destiny.
1867 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood I. i. 1 That destiny which took form to the old pagans as a gray mist high beyond the heads of their gods.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Eclogues iv, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 27 ‘Ages blest, roll onward!’ the Sisters of Destiny cried.
b. With possessive pronoun: The power or agency held to predetermine a particular person's life or lot. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun]
weirdc888
whatec1200
fortunea1300
cuta1340
destinyc1374
fatec1374
destin1590
jade1594
fatalitya1631
ananke1860
c1374 G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite 339 Thus holdithe me my destenye a wrechche.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 757 My dere destyne Me ches to hys make al-þaȝ vnmete.
1642 J. Denham Cooper's Hill 6 Had thy great destiny but given thee skill To know as well, as power to act her will.
5. Mythology. The goddess of destiny; plural the three goddesses held, in Greek and Roman mythology, to determine the course of human life; the Fates: see fate n. 2.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > the Fates
weirdsc725
ParcaeeOE
the three sistersa1400
destiny14..
the Weird Sistersc1400
(the) fatal dames, ladies, sisters1552
the three Fatals1575
fate1600
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 573/35 Cloto, on of thre shapsisterys vel shappystrys [vel destynyes].
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. ii. 15 Seuen faire branches..Some..dried by natures course, Some..by the Destinies cut. View more context for this quotation
1623 W. Lisle in tr. Ælfric Saxon Treat. Old & New Test. Ded. 27 So charge the Destinies their spindle runne.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 523. ¶7 I shall not allow the Destinies to have had an Hand in the Deaths of the several Thousands who have been slain in the late War.
1814 R. Southey Roderick xxi. 345 We, poor slaves..must drag The Car of Destiny, where'er she drives Inexorable and blind.
1857 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. (ed. 3) I. 125 The adamantine distaff which Destiny holds.

Compounds

General attributive uses.
ΚΠ
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Desteny readers or tellers, Fatidici.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

destinyadj.

Forms: In Middle English destyne, 1500s destany.
Etymology: < French destiné, past participle of destiner to destine v.
Obsolete. rare.
Destined.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [adjective] > fated or predestined
born1357
destinablec1374
destinalc1374
fatalc1374
predestinatec1384
foreordainedc1420
ordinate?a1425
destiny?1473
preordinatea1475
prefinitec1475
pointed1523
predestined1545
determined1546
ordinated1562
predestinated1571
preordained?1580
fore-appointeda1586
predeterminate1601
predetermined1601
destinated1604
destinate1605
destined1609
predesigned1668
predefinite1678
cut and dry1710
fated1715
weirded1820
laid-down1839
foreordinated1858
predesignated1883
predestinatory1893
preset1926
predefined1929
predestine1962
bashert1963
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) II. lf. 198 Shewyng hym by certayne signes that hit was destyne that another shold make the Cyte.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vii. ii. 36 All hail thou grond and land,..quod he, in hy, By the fatis onto me destany.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

destinyv.

Etymology: < destiny n. Compare to fate.
Obsolete.
a. transitive. To destine, foreordain, predetermine.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [verb (transitive)]
waryc725
accurselOE
for-waryc1175
cursec1200
bana1275
beshrewc1325
shrew1338
maledighta1400
destinyc1400
damn1477
detest1533
beshrompa1549
widdle1552
becurse1570
malison1588
execrate1612
imprecate1613
maledict1780
the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > predestine or predetermine [verb (transitive)]
shapea1000
dightc1000
besee1297
weirda1300
destinec1300
ordainc1390
ettlea1400
destinyc1400
eure1428
fortunec1430
foreordainc1440
order1532
preordain1533
predefine1542
prefine1545
destinate1548
fore-pointa1557
fore-appoint1561
pre-ordinate1565
foreset1573
forepurpose1581
sort1592
predestinate1593
predetermine1601
pre-appoint1603
forecall1613
fatea1616
predesign1630
predeterminate1637
pre-order1640
predestine1642
ordinate1850
foreordinate1858
preset1926
c1400 Test. Love (1560) iii. 298/1 If in that manner bee said, God toforne have destenied both badde and her bad werkes.
1520 Chron. Eng. ii. f. 10v/1 That lande is destenyed and ordeyned for you and for your people.
?1593 H. Chettle Kind-harts Dreame sig. H1v Hidden treasure is by spirits possest, and they keepe it onely for them, to whome it is destinied.
1652 J. Wright tr. J.-P. Camus Nature's Paradox 63 The high Providence of Heaven..destinying me to misfortune.
b. To devote to some fate by imprecation.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > malediction > [verb (transitive)]
waryc725
accurselOE
forcurse1154
cursec1175
for-waryc1175
bana1275
ashend1297
to bid (something) misadventurec1330
shrew1338
beshrew1377
maledighta1400
to fare (also go, come) to mischancec1400
defyc1430
destinya1450
condemn1489
detest1533
adjure1539
beshrompa1549
widdle1552
becurse1570
malison1588
consecrate1589
exaugurate1600
execrate1612
imprecate1616
blasta1634
damna1640
vote1644
to swear at ——1680
devote1749
maledict1780
comminate1801
bless1814
peste1824
cuss1863
bedamn1875
mugger1951
a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 108 It is gret perille for fader and moder to curse her children ne forto destenie hem vnto any wicked thinge.
c. To divine or prognosticate (what is destined to happen). (Cf. destiny n. 1b.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > prophesy [verb (transitive)]
prophesy1372
betoken1382
prophetize?a1400
spaea1400
tella1400
writec1405
ossc1450
destiny?1549
fore-prophesy1581
forewarn1582
vaticinate1652
?1549 J. Hooper Declar. 10 Commandm. iv Such as give faith unto..such as destinieth what shall happen..committeth idolatry.
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