Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To predestine.
- adjective Predestined.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To predetermine or foreordain; appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose.
- Synonyms Predestinate, Foreordain, Predestine, decree, foredoom. Predestinate and foreordain are exact words, applying only to the acts of God; predestine is used somewhat more freely.
- Predestinated; foreordained; fated.
- noun One who is predestinated or foreordained to a particular end.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Predestinated; foreordained; fated.
- transitive verb To predetermine or foreordain; to appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose or decree; to preëlect.
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- verb To
predestine . - adjective archaic Predestinated, preordained.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective established or prearranged unalterably
- verb foreordain by divine will or decree
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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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The History of the Church of Christ: from the days of the apostles, till the famous disputation ... 1812
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THE word "predestinate" signifies, according to the _Imperial
The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election Robert Wallace
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The Greek word rendered "predestinate" is found only in these six passages, Acts 4: 28; Rom.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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"For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son" Rom 8:29.
"First the fruit, now the vegetable..." Fathorse 2008
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No modification of the point of view taken, no selection of other facts for study, no natural bent of mind even, can enable a man to escape the predestinate opinion.
Pragmatism Hookway, Christopher 2008
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I believe that our estranged and divided ashes shall unite again; that our separated dust, after so many pilgrimages and transformations into the parts of minerals, plants, animals, elements, shall, at the voice of God, return into their primitive shapes, and join again to make up their primary and predestinate forms.
Religio Medici 2007
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For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
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Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
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Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
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