1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Summarie Answere to Darel ii. 88 The parties themselues..had..no purpose at all, to relate the vndoubted truth of things as they were done in deed: but reported them rather according to the predeterminate purpose of your proper desires.

1635 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Donzella Desterrada 54 Not casuall, but predeterminate and certaine.

1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III 22 Ἐνεργεῖν, as applied to God, notes his actuose, efficacious, and predeterminate concurse in and with althings.

1794 F. G. Waldron Heigho for Husband! iii. ii. 31 A young unthinking female..traverses the country, fortune-hunting: that is, with a predeterminate design to rob any young man..of half his riches.

1853 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Aug. 394 It must be by the predeterminate counsel, the intentional permission, and the all-wise appointment of God.

1897 Woman's Home Comp. Dec. There is no predeterminate set of conditions for holiday-making that need tie adventurous hands.

1939 Hispanic Rev. 7 170 We should..seek an explanation..instead of trying to fit our word to some predeterminate scheme.

1989 Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. 40 444 A (simple) random sample without replacement is one selected such that each possible combination of size n is drawn with (equal) predeterminate relative frequency in the ‘long run’.

2000 Insurance Day (Nexis) 10 Oct. 6 Once a rupture starts, the stopping point is not predeterminate.

1859 S. M. Davis Life & Times Sir P. Sidney 148 He further distinguished himself by ruining his fortune, defacing his beautiful castles, and pre-determinately breaking the heart of his wife.

1939 French Rev. 12 401 My own preference for Shelley is admittedly founded upon the fact that my tastes are predeterminately Anglo-Saxon.

1993 Guardian (Nexis) 23 Jan. 26 Goneril and Regan were not presented as predeterminately evil but as women driven towards cruelty by circumstance.

1637 T. Jackson Serm. 2 Chron. 19 That erroneous opinion or conceit..that their calamity or prosperity was fatall; that all things were so prederminated by God.

1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. ii. §162. 118 God predeterminates men to all their Actions good, bad, and indifferent.

a1643 Visct. Falkland Of Infallibilitie Church of Rome (1645) 14 They have made differences among them (as whether the Pope be infallible, Whether God predeterminate every action).

1960 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 104 179/2 The area to be photographed on a particular flight..was predeterminated precisely on the map.

1998 Courier Mail (Queensland, Austral.) (Nexis) 22 Oct. 7 Only then can we predeterminate the best dose of drugs to prevent pain and anxiety during an operation but leave the patient awake and alert soon afterwards.

1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Triumph of Faith 91 The predeterminating grace of Christ.

1938 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 23 94 The overwhelming importance of the institution of slavery as the predeterminating factor in the influence and acculturation of the Negro.

1999 Other Victims of War (Women's Educ. & Res. Centre, Colombo) (Nexis) 10–9 The research seeks to cover various pre-determinating aspects, such as the husband's job, the present economic status, source of income, [etc.].