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• v  decree or determine beforehand
• v  foreordain by divine will or decree
• v  foreordain or determine beforehand
• s  established or prearranged unalterably
  it seemed predestined since the beginning of the world

• A keystone of Calvinism is predestination, and what most non-Calvinists may find odd is how you could be so sure that you were predestined for heaven if you didn't pull through.
• Born in San Giuseppe Jato, a Sicilian mountain town of 10,000 situated halfway between Palermo and Corleone, Brusca seems to have been predestined for a life of crime.
• The girls were emotionally adrift, had no clear concept of their predestined female role.

• predestine
• predestinate
• foreordain
• preordain
• foreordained

News & Articles

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• Mediums, kittens, sharks and football
  If you can't get a Long Island psychic, you might as well settle for one from New Jersey. "Psychic Tia" (10 tonight on A&E, TV-PG) follows Tia Belle, a medium seemingly predestined for a career in reality television. A former police detective, Tia is an...
  Aug. 3, 2013 - The Standard-Times

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in CNN
  Our relationship has not been without disagreement and difficulty, but the notion that we must be adversaries is not predestined,Obama told several hundred students.
• John McCain in CNSNews.com
  I have never believed I was destined be president,McCain said. "I don't believe anyone is predestined to lead America. But I do believe that we were born with responsibilities to the country that has protected our God-given rights and the...
• Sobolev in CNN
  I think it's a predestined action,Soboleva said in a interview with state-run TV. "The time was carefully chosen - we practically could do nothing - neither file an appeal nor look into the case. We are simply put aside and our hands are...