Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To fix upon, decide, or decree in advance; foreordain.
- transitive verb Theology To foreordain or elect by divine will or decree.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To decree beforehand; predetermine; foreordain; predestinate.
- Synonyms See
predestinate .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To decree beforehand; to foreordain; to predestinate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
determine thefuture or thefate of something in advance; topreordain . - verb theology To
foreordain bydivine will .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb foreordain by divine will or decree
- verb foreordain or determine beforehand
- verb decree or determine beforehand
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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While a Chevy Volt stays tethered to GMs uncertain predestine as well as a as if tall cost tag, Nissan is ecstatic about a future of a yet-to-be-named electric car.
Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009
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While a Chevy Volt stays tethered to GMs uncertain predestine as well as a as if tall cost tag, Nissan is ecstatic about a future of a yet-to-be-named electric car.
Nissan Confident in Its Electric Future - KickingTires admin 2009
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Whatever a predestine of religion in a modern universe -- a bane upon a decline or a resurgent force for great -- a power of putting to genocide will likely endure for a secular as well as faithful alike.
Should the Peace Prize Have Gone to Neda? -- Politics Daily admin 2009
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To avoid a same predestine next fall, Democrats need to support a national debate in distinctly populist terms.
Robert Creamer: Four Lessons for Democrats in Tuesday's Elections admin 2009
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To avoid a same predestine next fall, Democrats need to support a national debate in distinctly populist terms.
Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009
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Whatever a predestine of religion in a modern universe -- a bane upon a decline or a resurgent force for great -- a power of putting to genocide will likely endure for a secular as well as faithful alike.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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Many other Quranic ideas reinforce the point that God does not predestine in the popular sense.
Printing: Divine Will and Human Freedom -- Part I. Divine Predestination: How Far Real? 2010
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Many other Quranic ideas reinforce the point that God does not predestine in the popular sense.
Divine Will and Human Freedom -- Part I. Divine Predestination: How Far Real? 2010
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Past failures, no matter how disastrous, do not predestine outcomes and thereby excuse future generations from their responsibility. —
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Negative childhood experiences do not necessarily predestine adult problems any more than a wonderful childhood predicts a blissful adulthood.
Parenting by the Book John Rosemond 2007
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