preordination

But the shooting-brake conformation is so utterly right that it takes on the aspect of preordination.

The Coolest Ferrari Ever—Drive Carefully Dan Neil 2011

Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world, than the world that was before it, while they lay obscure in the chaos of preordination, and night of their forebeings.

Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

But it is still unclear if the appeal to divine incomprehensibility is supposed to help us to accept that God preordains everything and that there is a freedom that conflicts with divine preordination, or if it is supposed to help us to accept that there is a kind of freedom that is consistent with divine preordination but is still freedom.

Descartes' Modal Metaphysics Cunning, David 2006

Maury Noble were some predestined anti-Christ, urged by a preordination to go everywhere there was to go along the earth and to see all the billions of humans who bred and wept and slew each other here and there upon it.

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

But I can tell thee there is no such thing as Fortune in the world, nor does anything which takes place there, be it good or bad, come about by chance, but by the special preordination of heaven; and hence the common saying that 'each of us is the maker of his own Fortune.'

Don Quixote 2002

The “germ,” then, is not necessarily a miniature organism, it is “every preordination, every performa - tion of parts capable by itself of determining the exist - ence of a Plant or of an Animal” (ibid.).

GENETIC CONTINUITY BENTLEY GLASS 1968

That the head can infuse the virtue of his own perfection into her, and she can receive it from him according to the order of preordination and subordination fitly corresponding with it according to the difference of both.

The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2 1560-1609 1956

On the first point: this reasoning proves only that the preordination of predestination is not furthered by the prayers of the devout.

Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas 1954

If we are speaking of man in the first of these states, there is one reason why he cannot merit eternal life by his natural powers alone, and that is that his merit depends on a divine preordination.

Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas 1954

The divine preordination cannot in any wise be furthered by the prayers of the devout, since their prayers cannot cause anyone to be predestined.

Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas 1954