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predestinate
[ verb pri-des-tuh-neyt; adjective pri-des-tuh-nit, -neyt ]
verb (used with object)
- Theology. to foreordain by divine decree or purpose.
- Obsolete. to foreordain; predetermine.
adjective
- predestined; foreordained.
predestinate
adjective
- predestined or foreordained
- theol subject to predestination; decided by God from all eternity
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- pre·desti·nate·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of predestinate1
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Example Sentences
Whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified.
The adversary chiefly contemplated by the tragedians is Fate, or predestinate misfortune.
O how few are there to whom Jupiter hath been so favourable as to predestinate them to plant cabbages!
To this end were we born, Dearest and most sweet, and from all time predestinate!
The criminal always work at one crime—that is the true criminal who seems predestinate to crime, and who will of none other.
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