predetermine

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PREDETERM'INE, verb transitive [pre and determine.] 1. To determine beforehand; to settle in purpose or counsel. If God foresees events, he must have predetermined them. 2. To doom by previous decree.
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