PREDESTINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does predestine mean? 

• PREDESTINE (verb)
  The verb PREDESTINE has 3 senses:

1. decree or determine beforehand

2. foreordain by divine will or decree

3. foreordain or determine beforehand

  Familiarity information: PREDESTINE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREDESTINE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they predestine    ... he / she / it predestines   
Past simple: predestined   
Past participle: predestined   
-ing form: predestining   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Decree or determine beforehand

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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

ordain (issue an order)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

predestination (previous determination as if by destiny or fate)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Foreordain by divine will or decree

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

foreordain; predestinate; predestine

Hypernyms (to "predestine" 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

Derivation:

predestination ((theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Foreordain or determine beforehand

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

foreordain; predestine; preordain

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

predetermine (determine beforehand)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "predestine"):

jinx (foredoom to failure)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Somebody ----s whether INFINITIVE

Derivation:

predestination (previous determination as if by destiny or fate)

 Context examples 

The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Thursday, predestined to hope and enjoyment, came; and opened with more kindness to Fanny than such self-willed, unmanageable days often volunteer, for soon after breakfast a very friendly note was brought from Mr. Crawford to William, stating that as he found himself obliged to go to London on the morrow for a few days, he could not help trying to procure a companion; and therefore hoped that if William could make up his mind to leave Mansfield half a day earlier than had been proposed, he would accept a place in his carriage.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)