predestinate

t. & i. [Fr. prédestiner: Sp. & Port. predestinar; Ital. pre des tin are.) [PREDESTINATE, a.] A. Trans .: To appoint beforehand by irreversible decree or unchangeable purpose; to preordain; to predetermine. "Having predestinated us unto the adoption of chil dren."-Ephesians i. 5. *B. In trans.: To hold the doctrine of predestination. ( Dryden .) prě - děs-tin-ā'-tion, *pre-des-tin-a-ci-on, *pre-des-tin-a-ci-oun, subst. [Fr. prédestination , from Lat. prædestinatio , from prædes tin at us =predestinate (qv.); Sp. pre des tina cion ; Ital. predes tin azione .] 1. Ord. Lang.: The act of ordaining, decreeing, or determining events beforehand. "God's infallible providence and pre des tina cion." Joyce: Expos. of Daniel, ch. xii. 2. Theology: Foreordination (q.v.). The word "predestination" does not occur in the A. V. of the Bible. The verb "to predestinate" is found in Rom. viii. 29, 30, and Eph. i. 5, 11. [CALVIN ISM, ELECTION, 11. 2.] tpre-des-tin-a-tive, a. [Eng. pre des tin at (e); ive.] Predestinating; determining or ordaining beforehand. pre-des-tin-a-tor, s. [Eng. pre des tin at ( e ); -or.] 1. One who predestinates or preordains. 2. One who holds the doctrine of predestination; a predestinarian. "Let all predestinators me produce, Who struggle with eternal fate in vain." Cowley: My Fate. pre-děs'-tine, v . t. [Fr. prédestiner .] [PREDESΤΙΝΑΤΕ, α.] To decree or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate. "The very lips and eyes Predestined to have all our sighs." Moore: Light of the Haram. *pre-des-tin-, *pre-des-tin-e, s. [Pref. pre- , and Eng. destiny (q. v.).] Appointment or ordinance beforehand; predestination. "In his merites soothly for to be, As they shull comen by predestine." Chaucer : Troilus and Cre eide , iv. pre-de-ter-min-a-ble, a . [Pref. pre- , and Eng. determinable (q. v.).) Determinable beforehand; capable of being predetermined.