predeterminate
Americanadjective
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determined beforehand; predetermined.
adjective
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determined beforehand; predetermined
Other Word Forms
- predeterminately adverb
Etymology
Origin of predeterminate
First recorded in 1625–35; pre- + determinate
Example Sentences
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Article Third runs thus, “The predestinate are a predeterminate and certain number, which can neither be lessened nor increased.”
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert
Full of predeterminate intuitions, they are without intelligence, which is the power of seeing things as they are.
From Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion by Santayana, George
For it needs must be that the foreknowledge of God have its foundation in the nature of things, and this foundation, making the truth predeterminate, will prevent it from being contingent and free.
From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Huggard, E.M.
The Lord having resolved upon it to manifest his own glory did in that due and predeterminate time apply his own power to this business.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
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