predestine

See also: prédestiné, prédestine, and predestiné

English

Etymology

From Old French prédestiner, from Medieval Latin praedestinare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹeˈdɛstɪn/, IPA^(key): /pɹiˈdɛstɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɛstɪn

Verb

predestine (third-person singular simple present predestines, present participle predestining, simple past and past participle predestined)

1. (transitive) To determine the future or the fate of something in advance; to preordain.
2. (theology, transitive) To foreordain by divine will.

Related terms

• destine
• predestination
• predestined

Translations

to determine the future of something in advance

• Czech: předurčit
• Finnish: predestinoida, määrätä ennalta, ennaltamäärätä
• Hungarian: predesztinál (hu)
• Italian: predestinare (it), predeterminare (it), preordinare (it)

• Serbo-Croatian: predodrediti (sh)
• Spanish: predestinar (es)

Anagrams

• diterpenes

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Spanish

Verb

predestine

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of predestinar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of predestinar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of predestinar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of predestinar.