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predestinate

[ verb pri-des-tuh-neyt; adjective pri-des-tuh-nit, -neyt ]

verb (used with object)

predestinated, predestinating.
  1. Theology. to foreordain by divine decree or purpose.
  2. Obsolete. to foreordain; predetermine.


adjective

  1. predestined; foreordained.

predestinate

verb

  1. tr another word for predestine
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. predestined or foreordained
  2. theol subject to predestination; decided by God from all eternity
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of predestinate1

1350–1400; Middle English predestinaten (v.) < Latin ±è°ù²¹±ð»å±ð²õ³Ù¾±²ÔÄå³Ù³Ü²õ, past participle of ±è°ù²¹±ð»å±ð²õ³Ù¾±²ÔÄå°ù±ð to appoint beforehand. See pre-, destine, -ate 1
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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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About a century and half later, even the wise Defoe wrote in his London plague novel that Turks and Mahometans “professed predestinating Notions, and of every Man’s End being predetermined.â€

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She thanked and complimented him warmly, but without being very much astonished at his success, for she began to think he was predestinated.

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It is unreasonable to suppose that because God has predestinated all events, we need not take any step in the matter of our salvation.

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We are “predestinated to be conformed to the image of God’s Son.â€

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