predestine[verb]Synonyms: destine, determine, doom (to), fate, foreordain, predetermine, preform, preordain, foredestine, predestinate
Related Words: predecide,
prejudge,
preestablish [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
predestine verb trans. [pri:'dɛstɪn] LME.[Old & mod. French prédestiner or ecclesiastical Latin praedestinare: see PREDESTINATE verb.]Usu. in
pass.1. Theology. =
PREDESTINATE verb 1.
LME.■ E. Longford Calvinists believing in predestined salvation by faith. absol.:
■ F. W. Farrar God predestines; man is free. How this is we cannot say.2. Determine or settle beforehand; ordain as if by fate or destiny; fate, doom.
M17.■ C. Darwin The white man who seems predestined to inherit the country. ■ T. T. Lynch The bird of paradise Predestined for the sunniest skies. [TahlilGaran] English Dictionary ▲