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Definition of Predestined
1. Adjective. Established or prearranged unalterably. "It seemed predestined since the beginning of the world"
Definition of Predestined
1. Verb. (past of predestine) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Predestined
1. predestine [v] - See also: predestine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Predestined
Literary usage of Predestined
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Those angels and men, thus predestined and fore-ordained, are particularly and
unchangeably designed; and their number is so certain and definite that it ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"It disavows the basing of predestination on " faith foreknown," but reckons also
with a resistance to grace ; the elect only are predestined, ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"807), or pass over those who are not predestined (Denz., n. 827). As lo:?g as
the reprobate live on earth, they may be accounted true Christians and members ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes, Ernest Alfred Benians (1903)
"The combination of all these factors rendered an explosion inevitable, and Germany
was predestined to be its scene. ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"322), yet, on the other hand, He predestined no one positively to hell, much less
to sin (Denz., nn. 200; 816). Consequently, just as no one is sa ved ..."
6. Social Life in the Early Republic by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (1903)
"II A predestined CAPITAL IN Boston it is said that the winding streets which so
perplex strangers were made ..."
7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"322), yet, on the other hand, He predestined no one positively to hell, much less
to sin (Denz., nn. 200816). Consequently, just as no one is saved against ..."
8. Social Life in the Early Republic by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (1902)
"II A predestined CAPITAL IN Boston it is said that the winding streets which so
perplex strangers were made to follow the cow-paths of more primitive days. ..."
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