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predestinate

VERB
  1. foreordain by divine will or decree
ADJECTIVE
  1. established or prearranged unalterably
    it seemed predestined since the beginning of the world
    a sense of predestinate inevitability about it
    his place in history was foreordained

How To Use predestinate In A Sentence

  • But Christie regarded me as altogether a doomed and predestinated child of perdition, who was sure to hold on my course, and drag downwards whosoever might attempt to afford me support. Chronicles of the Canongate
  • “Latet anguis” also in the adding “grass” of that exegetical term “pre-ordinated,” — predestinated, that is, pre-ordinated. The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
  • But this also is unnatural; and besides, the word predestinated has its limitation or explanation in the following clause, "according to the good pleasure of his will. ' A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians
  • For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
  • But this passage has to do with a people chosen from before the overthrow, blest with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places, having received the adoption, predestinated according to God's purpose, etc., etc.
  • a sense of predestinate inevitability about it
  • But if we are among the elect, surely we shall rise from sin to fulfil God's predetermined purpose. ‘The whole Christ’ is predestinate.
  • It seems that Ed and I just don't fit into the predestinated mold that the government and the general society would like us to.
  • Though it is never said that the non-elect are predestinated to damnation, Augustine was inclined to distinguish his view from Manichee dualism by stressing freedom in God, not freedom in man.
  • All cannot be happy at once; for, because the glory of one state depends upon the ruin of another, there is a revolution and vicissitude of their greatness, and must obey the swing of that wheel, not moved by intelligencies, but by the hand of God, whereby all estates arise to their zenith and vertical points, according to their predestinated periods. Religio Medici
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