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predestinate
[ verb pri-des-tuh-neyt; adjective pri-des-tuh-nit, -neyt ]
verb (used with object)
, pre·des·ti·nat·ed, pre·des·ti·nat·ing.
- 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.
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The adversary chiefly contemplated by the tragedians is Fate, or predestinate misfortune.
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O how few are there to whom Jupiter hath been so favourable as to predestinate them to plant cabbages!
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To this end were we born, Dearest and most sweet, and from all time predestinate!
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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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