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Predestinate  v. t.  (past & past part. predestinated; pres. part. predestinating)  To predetermine or foreordain; to appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose or decree; to preelect. "Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son."
Synonyms: To predetermine; foreordain; preordain; decree; predestine; foredoom.






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"Predestinate" Quotes from Famous Books



... Beleeue me Horatio, my hart is on the sodaine Very sore, all here about. Hor. My lord, forebeare the challenge then. Ham. No Horatio, not I, if danger be now, Why then it is not to come, theres a predestinate prouidence in the fall of a sparrow: heere comes the King. [I3] Enter King, Queene, Leartes, Lordes. King Now sonne Hamlet, we hane laid vpon your head, And make no question but to haue the best. Ham. ...
— The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke - The First ('Bad') Quarto • William Shakespeare

... Rom. viii. 29, 30, it is written: "For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren. Moreover, whom He did predestinate, them He also called: and whom he called, them He also justified; and whom He justified, them He also glorified." ...
— A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Mueller - Written by Himself, Third Part • George Mueller

... stamp the future of their chargeling flocks; and all who bring up youth by a System, and watch it, know that it is the malleable moment. Boys possessing any mental or moral force to give them a tendency, then predestinate their careers; or, if under supervision, take the impress that is given them: not often to cast it off, and seldom to cast ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... lineaments; and love bringing forth obedience finishes, and gives it the lively lustre. The burnings of love in obedience to God is that which illuminates the whole, and makes a man look indeed like him, to whose image he is predestinate to be conform, and then makes him, who is ravished with the charms of that beauty, say, as in a manner overcome thereby, "how fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse? How much better is thy love than wine, and the smell of thine ointments than all spices?" But consider, that as these beams, ...
— Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life • John Brown (of Wamphray)

... God is just! Full sure I am He never did predestinate Our souls to hell. Ourselves we damn— [To Orion, with sudden passion] Serpent! I know thee now, too late; Curse thee! Work ...
— Poems • Adam Lindsay Gordon



Words linked to "Predestinate" :   foreordained, certain, foreordain, theology



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