The Collaborative International Dictionary
Predestinate \Pre*des"ti*nate\, a. [L. praedestinatus, p. p. of
praedestinare to predestine; prae before + destinare to
determine. See Destine.]
Predestinated; foreordained; fated. ``A predestinate
scratched face.''
--Shak.
Predestinate \Pre*des"ti*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Predestinated; p. pr. & vb. n. Predestinating.] [Cf. Predestine.] To predetermine or foreordain; to appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose or decree; to pre["e]lect.
Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be
conformed to the image of his Son.
--Rom. viii.
29.
Syn: To predetermine; foreordain; preordain; decree; predestine; foredoom.
Wiktionary
(context archaic English) Predestinated, preordained. v
To predestine.
WordNet
adj. established or prearranged unalterably; "his place in history was foreordained"; "a sense of predestinate inevitability about it"; "it seemed predestined since the beginning of the world" [syn: foreordained, predestined]
v. foreordain by divine will or decree [syn: predestine, foreordain]
Usage examples of "predestinate".
Objection 1: It would seem unfitting that Christ should be predestinated.
God then concluded all those in unbelief, both Jews and Gentiles, whom He foreknew and predestinated to be comformed to the image of His Son, in order that they might be confounded by the bitterness of unbelief, and might repent and believingly turn to the sweetness of God’s mercy, and might take up that exclamation of the psalm, "How great is the abundance of Thy sweetness, O Lord, which Thou hast hidden for them that fear Thee, but hast perfected to them that hope," not in themselves, but "in Thee.
But the devils, whom these men repute gods, are content that even iniquities they are guiltless of should be ascribed to them, so long as they may entangle men’s minds in the meshes of these opinions, and draw them on along with themselves to their predestinated punishment: whether such things were actually committed by the men whom these devils, delighting in human infatuation, cause to be worshipped as gods, and in whose stead they, by a thousand malign and deceitful artifices, substitute themselves, and so receive worship.
When these two cities began to run their course by a series of deaths and births, the citizen of this world was the first-born, and after him the stranger in this world, the citizen of the city of God, predestinated by grace, elected by grace, by grace a stranger below, and by grace a citizen above.
For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren.
Therefore, if it is of these the predestinated remnant, about whom another prophet has said, "The remnant shall be saved.
Consequently this verse seems to compel us to believe that during that time, short as it is, no one will be added to the Christian community, but that the devil will make war with those who have previously become Christians, and that, though some of these may be conquered and desert to the devil, these do not belong to the predestinated number of the sons of God.
But she is heard in the case of those only who, though they oppose the Church, are yet predestinated to become her sons through her intercession.
Both those of the Gentiles and those of the Jews whom He predestinated, called, justified, glorified: none of these will be condemned by Him.
Gradually I slid into the persuasion that these troubles of mine, touching the scrivener, had been all predestinated from eternity, and Bartleby was billeted upon me for some mysterious purpose of an all-wise Providence, which it was not for a mere mortal like me to fathom.