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predestiny rare.|prɪˈdɛstɪnɪ|
Also 5 -destiné.
[f. pre- A. 2 + destiny, after predestine, etc. In Chaucer predestiné, a. obs. F. prédestinée (Cotgr.).]
Preappointed destiny or fate; predestination.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 938 (966) In here merites soþly for to be, As they shul come by predestine. 1853Jerdan Autobiog. IV. xiii. 229 Instead of inherent stupidity, or a predestiny to be correct. 1875tr. Schmidt's Desc. & Darw. 191 Anxious to rescue design, or at least the ‘purpose’—in short predestiny in the evolutionary series of Nature. |