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Definition of Preordinations
1. preordination [n] - See also: preordination
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preordinations
Literary usage of Preordinations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Heredity: A Psychological Study of Its Phenomena, Laws, Causes, and by Théodule Ribot (1898)
"... and especially that prime distinction between the ideas of time and space,
were inscribed in advance among the preordinations of the animal organism. ..."
2. Heredity: A Psychological Study of Its Phenomena, Laws, Causes, and Consequences by Théodule Ribot (1875)
"... and to accept either latent ideas or d priori forms of thought, or preordinations
of the nervous system and of the organism—it will be seen that ..."
3. The American Baptist Magazine, and Missionary Intelligencer (1821)
"The world has its own religion, ita doctrines and theories, its causes and effects,
its providences and preordinations, ..."
4. The Universalist Quarterly and General Review (1847)
"Bonnet suggested, and others have adopted, the notion that miracles, so called,
make a part of the course of nature ; they are preordinations of the Creator ..."
5. Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's (1895)
"Here we come upon a distinction that serves to clear up the obscurity respecting
germs defined as "preordinations" and " secret ..."
6. A Comprehensive View of the Leading and Most Important Principles of Natural by Samuel Stanhope Smith (1815)
"Let us compare the preordinations of Heaven with regard to the present, and the
future world. There is, in many respects, a manifest analogy between them. ..."
7. A Comprehensive View of the Leading and Most Important Principles of Natural by Samuel Stanhope Smith (1816)
"Let us compare the preordinations of Heaven with regard to the present, and the
future world. There is, in many respects, a manifest analogy between them. ..."
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