单词 | predetermination |
释义 | predeterminationn. 1. A previous assessment, calculation, or decision; a preliminary ruling or plan. Also: the action of making or giving a decision on a matter before it has been duly considered or discussed; an instance of this; prior judgement, prejudice. ΚΠ 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes III. xii. 297 The first of Nouember, according to the Generals predetermination, we returned to the North-wards as the winds and tides permitted. 1644 J. Maxwell Answer to Worthy Gentleman 40 They depose the Queen Regent, the predetermination being given, that it was lawfull for them to do so, by Mr Knox and Mr Wilcockes. 1658 W. Sanderson Compl. Hist. Life King Charles 259 Shall the King countenance that Assembly,..where deliberation can have no place, all parties coming with prejudice, and predetermination of the businesse in question? 1703 J. Maxwell Presbytery Display'd 27 They depose the Queen Regent, the pre-determination being given, that it was lawful for them to do so, by Mr. Knox and Mr. Wilcocks. 1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 254 That there appeared a manifest inequality, not to say predetermination, that Congress should request of their constituents power to judge and determine in the cause. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park II. vii. 140 In the evening it was found, according to the predetermination of Mrs. Grant and her sister, that after making up the Whist table there would remain sufficient for a round game. View more context for this quotation 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. xviii. 318 Without telling himself the reason, he deferred the predetermination on which side he should give his vote. 1938 Musical Times 79 523/2 At least two famous firms of today would be the poorer without certain of Hope Jones's predeterminations. 1961 Accounting Rev. 36 247/1 A depreciation plan requires a predetermination of the service values, applicable costs, and implicit interest rate. 1998 Dominion (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 20 July 12 The Crown has made a predetermination on what it expects to spend with claims. 2005 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (Nexis) 28 June b3 The decision..affirms a judge's April ruling that the town council did not act with bias or predetermination in granting zoning approval. 2. The action of determining or establishing an outcome, course of events, etc., in advance; predestination; the fact of being determined in this way; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > predestination foresettinga1300 destiningc1300 ordainingc1350 ordinationc1450 pre-ordinance1486 destinacy1490 predestination?1503 pre-ordination1527 foreordinance1530 predefinition?1548 fore-appointing1589 destination1598 ordainment1605 foreordination1620 predeterminationa1628 fatalitya1631 destinating1633 predesignationa1641 foreordaining1667 preordainmenta1847 pre-appointment1850 pre-election1860 foreordainment1879 providentialism1927 a1628 N. Carpenter Achitophel (1629) 32 The preordination of the Agent, which with our Diuines, against the Tenent of Arminius, I dare to call Predetermination. 1647 Bp. J. Taylor Θεολογία Ἐκλεκτική Ep. Ded. 33 The Calvinists are fierce in the matters of absolute Predetermination. 1659 G. Lawson Theo-politica ii. iv. 115 Predestination may signifie a Pre-determination, or Decree, to Elect or Reprobate: But thus we do not find it used in the Book of God. a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. ii. 487 He makes this difference to arise from the forecast and præ-determination of the Gods themselves. 1784 E. Allen Reason ii. §8. 98 Yet it is hard for such persons, who have verily believed that they are elected (and thus by a predetermination of God become his special favorites) to give up their notions of a predetermination of all events. 1836 H. Rogers Life J. Howe (1863) vi. 160 Those who held extreme opinions on the subject of Divine predetermination. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 13 July 2/3 To impress us with the wonderful co-ordination and predetermination of natural laws. 1923 J. W. Harvey tr. R. Otto Idea of Holy (1928) xi. 91 ‘Praedestinatio ambigua’, the predetermination of all men either to be saved or to be damned. 1963 A. Baraka Blues People i. 6 A culture with complex concepts of predetermination and the subservience of the human being to a complex of gods. 1979 Dædalus Summer 109 It survived amidst all the Calvinist rhetoric of predetermination. 2000 D. McLellan in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 412/2 There were..elements in Marx's thought that tended to overemphasize aspects of necessity and predetermination in his view of society. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [noun] > beforehand prelimitation1638 predeterminationc1650 prelimiting1652 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [noun] > restriction or limitation > beforehand prelimitation1638 predeterminationc1650 prelimiting1652 c1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 500 Aganis the predetermination and perlimitation of the Assemblie, they gave six Reasons. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [noun] > previous inclination or predisposition predisposition1626 predisposedness1645 predeterminationa1716 a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) VII. 94 Some..assert that the creature never advances into action, but by an irresistible pre-determination of the faculty to that action. 5. Prior resolve or mental determination; an instance of this; a pre-established intention to do something. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose willeOE highOE thoughtOE intent?c1225 achesounc1230 attenta1250 couragec1320 devicec1320 minda1325 studya1382 understanding1382 suggestionc1390 meaninga1393 i-minda1400 minta1400 tent1399 castc1400 ettlingc1400 affecta1425 advicec1425 intention1430 purposec1430 proposea1450 intendment1450 supposing?c1450 pretensionc1456 intellectionc1460 zeal1492 hest?a1513 minting?a1513 institute?1520 intendingc1525 mindfulness1530 cogitationa1538 fordrift1549 forecast1549 designing1566 tention1587 levela1591 intendiment1595 design1597 suppose1597 aim1598 regarda1616 idea1617 contemplationa1631 speculation1631 view1634 way of thinking1650 designation1658 tend1663 would1753 predetermination1764 will to art1920 1764 D. E. Baker Compan. to Play-house II. at Banks, Mr. John We are apt to receive [them] with a Kind of partial Prepossession, and a Pre-determination to be pleased. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia IV. viii. iii. 194 Hear me, then, I beg of you, with no pre-determination to disregard me. 1831 T. Carlyle Niebelungenlied in Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1872) III. 134 In spite of her rigorous predeterminations, some kindness for him is already gliding in. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 369 Mr. Winwood Reade..went down..with a pre-determination to prove Du Chaillu was wrong. 1932 Z. Fitzgerald Couple of Nuts in Scribner's Mag. Aug. 84/2 The blue surface of her eyes was jagged with a predetermination not to care. 1998 Dominion (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 10 July 3 The prosecution had argued the way it [sc. the cord] was tied indicated a predetermination to kill. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1625 |
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