predestinate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English predestinate, from Latin praedestinātus, past participle of praedestināre.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (verb) IPA(key): /pɹiːˈdɛstɪneɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (adjective) IPA(key): /pɹiːˈdɛstɪnət/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
[edit]predestinate (third-person singular simple present predestinates, present participle predestinating, simple past and past participle predestinated)
- To predestine.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 8:29:
- Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son.
- 1859, George Meredith, chapter 15, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
- Boys possessing any mental or moral force to give them a tendency, then predestinate their careers; or, if under supervision, take the impress that is given them: not often to cast it off, and seldom to cast it off altogether.
Adjective
[edit]predestinate (not comparable)
- (archaic) Predestined, preordained.
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- God keep your ladyship still in that mind; so some gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate scratched face.
Derived terms
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]predestinate
- inflection of predestinare:
Etymology 2
[edit]Participle
[edit]predestinate f pl
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]predestinate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of predestinar combined with te
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