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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Destiné, Destané, n. Also: destyné, destinie; destenie, -eny; destanie, -anye; distane, -anie. [ME. destiné, -yné (14th c.), -enie, -anee, etc., OF. destinée.] Destiny, fate, fortune.(a) a1400 Leg. S. xii. 205.
Hyr a sowne [= son] … That scho til eschewe destyne, In a cophyne kest in the se c1420 Wynt. v. 2004.
In intent that destyne Off thare goddys suld brokyn be Ib. vi. 1330.
Destyne swa mad hym ayre Till Conrade this Empryoure 1513 Doug. xii. ii. 152.
Declarand thame the fatale ordinans, Thar destyne, and Goddis purvians 1596 Dalr. I. 78/28.
Quhen he was sett in the chyre called the chyre of Destinie, to wit, quhair the kings ar crouned(b) 1375 Barb. v. 428.
He chesit forthward to travale, … And sua driff furth his destane a1500 Gol. & Gaw. 1226.
Quha may his danger endure or destanye dispise 1513 Doug. i. i. 72.
Am I abandonyt with sa hard destany? Ib. ii. xii. 83; etc.
My purpos I left, obeyand destanye c1460 Alex. (Taym.) 228.
Alexander … vas send be hauinlie distanie, Of vickit men a punischer to be a1570-86 Maitl. F. xxix. 2.
O wrachit weird, … O cruell destanie Ib. xxx. 92.
I suld nocht my destany dispyte a1585 Maitl. Q. xl. 26.
Since I am be destanie becum ȝour seruituire(c) c1550 Rolland C. Venus Prol. 196.
Thay say it is fals destenie And wyittis Fortoun of thair misgouernance a1500 Henr. Fab. 641.
My destenie and eik my weird I ken Id. Test. Cress. 62; etc.
The fatall destenie Of fair Cresseid c1590 Fowler I. 114/49.
His fearse and cruell fates and destenies 1596 Dalr. I. 79/6.
This chyre, quhilke our cuntrey people called of Destenie