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predefine, v.|priːdɪˈfaɪn|
[f. pre- A. 1 + define v.; cf. obs. F. prediffinir (15th c. in Godef.).]
trans. To define, limit, appoint, or settle previously; to predetermine.
1542Becon Pathw. Prayer xliii. Q ij b, At his tyme predefined and appoynted from euerlastynge. 1678Gale Crt. Gentiles III. 29 Whatever God absolutely predefines or predestines from Eternitie he predetermines in time. a1711Ken Hymns Evang. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 67 Whom thy unbounded Goodness predefin'd To be the Mighty Saviour of Mankind. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 43 Much less can a general statute anticipate and pre-define it. 1836G. S. Faber Prim. Doctr. Election ii. viii. 357 The number of the predestinated is predefined and certain.
Hence predeˈfined ppl. a.; predefinite |priːˈdɛfɪnɪt| a., predetermined (in quot. 1847 = predesignate a. b); predefinition |priːdɛfɪˈnɪʃən|, predetermination.
1550Bale Image Both Ch. i. L iv b, Vntill such time as the complet number..shuld be fulfilled and wholy accomplished accordinge to the eternall prediffinition of God. 1678Gale Crt. Gentiles III. 25 Some distinguish between God's predefinition and his predetermination: his predefinition they restrain to his decrees, and his predetermination to his concurse. Ibid. 30 The decree of God..cannot have [its effect] but by efficaciously applying the create wil to the predefinite act. 1847Hamilton Let. to De Morgan 32 In the first, common, or Aristotelic meaning, definite, or more precisely predefinite (διοριστὸς, προσδιοριστὸς) is equivalent to expressed, overt, or, more proximately, to designate and pre-designate. 1929R. Bridges Testament of Beauty iv. 124 But these philosophers..used the abstracted terms whereby they had pre-defined distinctions. 1976Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. XXVII. 302 What is offered is not the theoretical construction of an object of study, but merely the systematization of predefined data. 1977J. D. Douglas in Douglas & Johnson Existential Sociol. i. 63 Even Goffman..has had little to say about the self except as a ‘presenter’ of predefined and learned social roles. |