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Predestinate

adjective

Established or prearranged unalterably. Synonyms: foreordained, predestined. "A sense of predestinate inevitability about it" , "It seemed predestined since the beginning of the world"

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"Predestinate" Quotes from Famous Books

... end were we born, Dearest and most sweet, and from all time predestinate! To this end, Sweetest and most dear, do we live and die, in death to find completer unity. For here is that secret of the world which wise men search and cannot find, and here too ...

— Beatrice • H. Rider Haggard

... instantly in hand my pen I set To tell you that death's final blow—which yet Shall me and every mortal surely find— I have not felt, though I, too, nearly join'd The confines of his realm without regret; But I turn'd back again because I read Writ o'er the threshold that the time to me Of life predestinate not all was fled, Though its last day and hour I could not see. Then once more let your sad heart comfort know, And love the living worth which ...

— The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch • Petrarch

... of himself as being Pierce: "This is a predestinate fit place for Pierse Pennilesse to set up his staff on." "Lenten Stuffe," "Works," vol. ...

— The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare • J. J. Jusserand

... his pleasure doth create To save or to destroy; And to eternal pain predestinate, As to ...

— Ten Great Religions - An Essay in Comparative Theology • James Freeman Clarke

... there's one predestinate To be his mortal foe; But that man is yet unborn, And long may it ...

— English Fairy Tales • Joseph Jacobs (coll. & ed.)

Words linked to "Predestinate" : predetermine, predestine, theology, foreordain, sure, theological system, certain