predestinate

present singular third person predestinates · participle present predestinating · participle past predestinated · past predestinated

1. To predestine.

   Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 8:29

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   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 it off altogether.

   1859, George Meredith, chapter 15, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC

1. archaicnot comparablePredestined, preordained.

   God keep your ladyship still in that mind; so some gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate scratched face.

   1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]

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   It’s said there’s one predestinate / To be his mortal foe; / But that man is yet unborn, / And long may it be so.

   1890, Joseph Jacobs, “The Red Ettin”, in English Fairy Tales, page 132

   There once was a man who said, “Damn! It is borne in upon me I am An engine that moves In predestinate grooves, I’m not even a bus, I’m a tram.”

   1905, Maurice Evan Hare, “Limerick”, in Susan Ratcliffe, editor, Oxford Essential Quotations, sixth edition, Oxford University Press, published 2018, →ISBN