What is "preordained"

Usage examples of "preordained".

But of course it wasn't an act of love: it was a mere athletic event, two matchless discoboli moving in tandem through the prescribed and preordained rituals of their specialty, and what did love have to do with that ?

All of us playing our preordained parts in some Edenite 'natural order'"-he stopped to gesture ironically at the orchids and lilies blossoming around us-"and being restored to the one condition our biology is optimized for: hunting and gathering, and dying at thirty or forty?

There's only a brutal process of natural selection, without any preordained goal.

History, they thought, was coming to its dialectically preordained conclusion.

Was their next action part of a preordained plan, or did the Twenty simply improvise as they blundered blithely down their chosen path?

They refused to have meetings with us without preordained agendas, and then they canceled the meetings altogether.

He answers questions with the preordained answers, whether what is preor­dained makes sense or not.

Because that turns him into a sort of puppet following a preordained pattern.

Stuttering Bill had watched the unequal race from its start to its preordained conclusion from his place against the side of the building.

They were on a track as preordained as the memory-track which had caused him to look up when he passed under the stairway leading to the stacks.

Or had she merely been a conduit for the inevitable, something preordained and over which neither of them had any power?