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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Destinat(e, p.p. [ME. destinate (a 1400), destynat, L. dēstinātus.] Destined, ordained, appointed.1513 Doug. iii. iii. 70.
That land now knaw I destinate to our kyn
Ib. xii. xiii. 9.
Enee Is destinat onto the hevin to cum
1567 Sat. P. iv. 49.
Thus was I than to doloure destinat
1585 James VI Ess. 74.
Sen that death to all is destinat
1619 Garden Elphinstoun 1208.
A noble-man, condemn'd And destinat to die
1636 Edinb. Test. LVII. 356.
In taikine of hir consent to accept hir lyferent of the thrid foirsaid destinat to hir

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