Hypertext Webster Gateway: "predestined"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Predestine \Pre*des"tine\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Predestined}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Predestining}.] [Cf. F. pr['e]destiner. See
{Predestinate}.]
To decree beforehand; to foreordain; to predestinate.
--Young.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
predestined
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}, {predestinate}]
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