predestinedadj.

1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (xii.) f. 222 Who destroieth gods infallible prouidence and predestinacion but he that decreeth, that a man may preuent the predestined and apointed howr of his death, infallibly foresene of god?

1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xv. f. 103 A moste happie life she should leade, so long as the destenies were disposed to weaue the webbe of hir predestined life.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion ii. 26 How happie floods are yee, From our predestin'd plagues that priuiledged bee.

a1640 P. Massinger Parl. of Love (1976) iv. v. 89 And that rich marchants, advocates and docters,..weare Predestind cuckolds.

1661 T. Ross tr. Silius Italicus Second Punick War v. 131 In their own Hands, th'incensed Souldiers bear Predestin'd Piacles.

1722 T. Cooke Marlborough i. 5 Say by what Influence of th'indulgent Skies First the predestin'd Hero knew to rise?

1740 C. Pitt tr. Virgil Æneid I. ii. 55 He..Doom'd to the Slaughter my predestin'd Head.

1799 W. Godwin St. Leon I. vii. 213 Their hearts had teemed with every vice, and every day had marked them the predestined victims of infamy.

1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor II. xi. 155 You are an infatuated and predestined fool.

1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iii. 158 Marked out in the eyes of all men as the predestined heirs of Charles.

1911 J. Muir My First Summer in Sierra 226 When the cones are ripe the scales and bracts fall off, setting the seeds free to fly to their predestined places.

1986 E. Longford Pebbled Shore (1988) ii. 17 They were Calvinists believing in predestined salvation by faith.

2005 Miami Herald (Nexis) 17 Oct. g21 As with all living things, though patterns occur, most behavior is situational and not predestined.