destin'd
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]destin'd
- (archaic) simple past and past participle of destine
- 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Emma: […], volume I, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, pages 147–148:
- They owed to him their two or three politest puzzles; and the joy and exultation with which at last he recalled, and rather sentimentally recited, that well-known charade, / My first doth affliction denote, / Which my second is destin’d to feel / And my whole is the best antidote / That affliction to soften and heal.— / made her quite sorry to acknowledge that they had transcribed it some pages ago already.