predestine
Meanings
verb
- To determine the future or the fate of something in advance; to preordain.
- To foreordain by divine will.
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Etymology
From Old French prédestiner, from Medieval Latin praedestinare. By surface analysis, pre- + destine. Displaced native Old English foreteohhian.
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