PREDESTINATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does predestinate mean? 

• 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.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREDESTINATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Established or prearranged unalterably

Synonyms:

foreordained; predestinate; predestined

Context example:

it seemed predestined since the beginning of the world

Similar:

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

• PREDESTINATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they predestinate    ... he / she / it predestinates   
Past simple: predestinated   
Past participle: predestinated   
-ing form: predestinating   

Sense 1

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

 Context examples 

Now this criminal of ours is predestinate to crime also; he, too, have child-brain, and it is of the child to do what he have done.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The criminal always work at one crime—that is the true criminal who seems predestinate to crime, and who will of none other.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)