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/prˌidɪtˈərmən/ /prˌiditˈərmən/ Listen

verb

Predetermine v. t. (past & past part. predetermined; pres. part. predermining)

To determine (something) beforehand.

To doom by previous decree; to foredoom.

Predetermine v. i. To determine beforehand.

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Etymology of 'Predetermine'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Predetermine" Quotes from Famous Books

... signifies, according to the Imperial Dictionary, "to predetermine or foreordain," "to appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose." The noun, according to the same authority, denotes the act of decreeing or foreordaining events; the act of God, by which He hath from eternity unchangeably appointed or determined whatsoever ...

— The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election • Robert Wallace

... to moral defect, or to intellectual deficiency, or to outbursts of positive insanity." And the same author says elsewhere: "The anti-social, egoistic development of the individual predisposes to, if it does not predetermine, the mental degeneracy of his progeny; he, alien from his kind by excessive egoisms, determines an alienation of mind in them. If I may trust in that matter my observations, I know no one who is more likely to breed insanity in his offspring than the intensely narrow, self-sensitive, suspicious, ...

— Practical Ethics • William DeWitt Hyde