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PREDESTINATE

• PREDESTINATE (adjective)
The adjective PREDESTINATE has 1 sense:

1. established or prearranged unalterably

Familiarity information: PREDESTINATE used as an adjective is very rare.

• PREDESTINATE (verb)
The verb PREDESTINATE has 1 sense:

1. foreordain by divine will or decree

Familiarity information: PREDESTINATE used as a verb is very rare.

• PREDESTINATE (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Established or prearranged unalterably

Synonyms:

foreordained; predestinate; predestined

Context examples:

his place in history was foreordained / a sense of predestinate inevitability about it / it seemed predestined since the beginning of the world

Similar:

certain; sure (certain to occur; destined or inevitable)

• PREDESTINATE (verb)

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Meaning:

Foreordain by divine will or decree

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

foreordain; predestinate; predestine

Hypernyms (to "predestinate" is one way to...):

predetermine (determine beforehand)

Domain category:

theological system; theology (a particular system or school of religious beliefs and teachings)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

"A guilty conscience needs no accuser."
(English proverb)
"One rain does not make a crop."
(Native American proverb, Creole)
"Example is better than precept."
(Arabic proverb)
"Who seeds wind, shall harvest storm."
(Dutch proverb)

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