predestinarian

American  

[pri-des-tuh-nair-ee-uhn, pree-des-] / prɪˌdɛs təˈnɛər i ən, ˌpri dɛs- /

adjective

1. of or relating to predestination.

2. believing in predestination.

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noun

1. a person who believes in predestination.

predestinarian British  

/ ˌpriːdɛstɪˈnɛərɪən /

noun

1. a person who believes in divine predestination

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adjective

1. of or relating to predestination or characterizing those who believe in it

Other Word Forms

• predestinarianism noun

Etymology

Origin of predestinarian

First recorded in 1630–40; predestin(ation) + -arian

Example Sentences

To be a good traveler, he philosophizes, one should “put yourself, as a predestinarian might say, calmly into the dice-box of small events, and be shaken out whenever circumstance may ordain.”

From Washington Post

Such is the testimony on the one side; and on the other we have decided predestinarians acknowledging, as an article of their creed, what in the sermon was urged as only a logical consequence.

From Project Gutenberg

I am not a predestinarian, Brother Elisha, but I know that certain causes must produce certain effects, as surely as given figures produce known results.

From Project Gutenberg

I am a devout predestinarian, and here lies the case.

From Project Gutenberg

Blodgett was a predestinarian of the old school, and was firmly imbedded in the belief that from all eternity it had been fore-ordained that he was to attend to just such fellows as the editor.

From Project Gutenberg