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.

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

adjective

1. predestined; foreordained.

predestinate

verb

1. See predestine
   tr another word for predestine

adjective

1. predestined or foreordained
2. theol subject to predestination; decided by God from all eternity

Other Words From

• pre·desti·nate·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of predestinate¹

1350–1400; Middle English predestinaten (v.) < Latin praedestinātus, past participle of praedestināre to appoint beforehand. See pre-, destine, -ate ¹

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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Related Words

• foreordain