predestinative
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
pre- + destinative
Adjective[edit]
predestinative (not comparable)
- Determining beforehand; predestinating.
- 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on The Pilgrim's Progress:
- The predestinative force of a free agent's own will in certain absolute acts, determinations, or elections, and in respect of which acts it is one either with the divine or the devilish will; and if the former, the conclusions to be drawn from God's goodness, faithfulness, and spiritual presence; these supply grounds of argument of a very different character […]