Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Determined beforehand: as, the predeterminate counsel of God.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Determined beforehand.
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- adjective Determined
beforehand .
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Examples
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If you buy into the pan-universal cue break theory, then fine, all of existence is an ordered series of inevitable predeterminate cause-and-effect events, and all we have is the utterly convincing illusion that we have meaningful choice over ourselves and influence on the world around us.
hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » We Make All This Stuff Up 2007
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Article Third runs thus, "The predestinate are a predeterminate and certain number, which can neither be lessened nor increased."
The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election Robert Wallace
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Yet he is the youngest; but, then, nature is no party to his being such, and probably she is no party (by means of any physical change in the parents) once in a thousand births to a case of absolute and predeterminate juniority.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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The Lord having resolved upon it to manifest his own glory did in that due and predeterminate time apply his own power to this business.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
Nemo774 commented on the word predeterminate
Article Third runs thus, "The predestinate are a predeterminate and certain number, which can neither be lessened nor increased." found on wordnik
October 4, 2010