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• v  decree or determine beforehand
• v  foreordain by divine will or decree
• v  foreordain or determine beforehand

• Past failures, no matter how disastrous, do not predestine outcomes and thereby excuse future generations from their responsibility.
• From All Movie Guide: Despite a visage and presence that seemed to almost predestine her for movie stardom, fair-haired Romola Garai stumbled into acting almost inadvertently.
• While the Equinox shares its basic chassis design with the Vue, the similarity does not predestine it to the same failure; the Chevy has a longer wheelbase, a different body .

• predestinate
• foreordain
• preordain

News & Articles

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• Heading into annual meeting, Southern Baptists face discord about Calvinism
  Is God's saving grace free to anyone who accepts Jesus, or did God predestine certain people for heaven and hell before the beginning of the world? That's a 500-year-old question, but it is creating real divisions in 2013 in the nation's largest Protestan
  June 10, 2013 - The Alexandria Town Talk
• 500 years later, theological debate still simmers
  Is God's saving grace free to anyone who accepts Jesus, or did God predestine certain people for heaven and hell before the beginning of the world? That's a 500-year-old question, but it is creating real divisions in 2013 in the nation's largest Protestant denomination.
  June 10, 2013 - The Philadelphia Inquirer
• Heading into annual meeting, Southern Baptists face discord over Calvinism
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Is God's saving grace free to anyone who accepts Jesus, or did God predestine certain people for heaven and hell before the beginning of the world?
  June 9, 2013 - The Alexandria Town Talk