dēstinō āvī, ātus, āre STA-, to make fast, make firm, bind, fix, stay: antemnas ad malos, Cs.: rates ancoris, Cs.

—Fig., to fix in mind, determine, resolve, design, assign, devote, appoint, appropriate: eum ducem, fix their minds on him as, etc., L.: quae agere destinaverat, Cs.: morte solā vinci, L.: thalamis removere pudorem, O.: operi destinat, detailed, Cs.: qui locus non erat alicui destinatus?: me arae, V.: eorum alteri diem necis: tempore locoque ad certamen destinato, L.: si destinatum in animo est, L.: sibi destinatum in animo esse, summittere, etc., he has determined, L.

—To select, mean to choose: omnium consensu destinari, L.: quod tibi destinaras trapezephorum, meant to buy.

—To appoint, fix upon, designate: imperio Numam, O.: regnum sibi Hispaniae, L.: provinciam Agricolae, Ta.: marito uxorem, H.: se collegam consulatui, Ta.: destinari imperio, Ta.: alqm consulem, L.

—To fix upon, aim at: alquem locum oris, L.