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DESTINY, n.

1. State or condition appointed or predetermined; ultimate fate; as, men are solicitous to know their future destiny, which is however happily concealed from them.

2. Invincible necessity; fate; a necessity or fixed order of things established by a divine decree, or by an indissoluble connection of causes and effects.

But who can turn the stream of destiny?

Destinies, the fates, or supposed powers which preside over himan life, spin it out, and determine it; called by the Latins, parcae.

1913 Definition
Destiny (destiny)
n.(?)
Des"ti*ny
; pl. Destinies (#). [OE. destinee, destene, F. destinée, from destiner. See Destine.]
  1. That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.

    Thither he
    Will come to know his destiny.
    Shak.

    No man of woman born,
    Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.
    Bryant.

  2. The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.

    But who can turn the stream of destiny? Spenser.

    Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. Longfellow.

    The Destinies (Anc. Myth.), the three Parcæ, or Fates; the supposed powers which preside over human life, and determine its circumstances and duration.

    Marked by the Destinies to be avoided. Shak.


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In correcting public evils, great reliance is placed on schools. But learning and sciences have no material effect in subduing ambition and selfishness, reconciling parties or subjecting private interest to the influence of a ruling preference of public good.
 On Suffrage (unpublished) 




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