predeterminedadj.

1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Summarie Answere to Darel i. 56 Can we not certainely conclude from thence, any determined continuance of supernaturall diseases, vnlesse also we can certainelie set downe a predetermined perseuerance thereof.

1660 tr. M. Amyraut Treat. conc. Relig. iii. ix. 496 Christ was born at the predetermin'd time.

1719 G. Sewell Sir Walter Raleigh iv. i. 40 Can'st thou mould Nature new, or change The pre-determin'd Qualities of Things.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. xcvi. 332 It is..impossible, Sir, to miss the natural inference on this occasion, that lies against his predetermined baseness.

1769 J. Ussher Clio (ed. 2) 30 There is no pre-determined taste of beauty in the passion of florists, because they differ in the form of flower-gardens.

1823 G. S. Faber Treat. Christian Dispensations I. ii. 95 How shall we account for his having beheld from afar..the predetermined day of the yet future Deliverer?

1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life (1875) x. v. 394 A predetermined quantity of little things.

1910 Chambers's Jrnl. Oct. 688/1 This perforator is suspended with the base uppermost..and, when it reaches the predetermined height, automatically released.

1952 S. Kauffmann Tightrope x. 158 It was as if he were stepping on to a stage and had now to act a predetermined role, but a role in which the consequences were real.

2004 E. McMillan Complexity, Organizations & Change iv. 64 Managers are advised to..impel an organization and all its individuals to change according to a predetermined plan using a predetermined process.

1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. v. 30 You are predetermined to take no one soul's advice.

1772 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra I. Pref. p. xxii No reasonable man would be so eager to possess himself of the invidious power..if he were not pre-determined to make use of it.

1805 W. Godwin Fleetwood I. iv. 63 In the present case, where every joyous companion was predetermined to find materials for merriment, the peals of laughter were obstreperous and innumerable.

1872 W. Minto Man. Eng. Prose Lit. ii. viii. 527 An audience predetermined not to be convinced.

1944 W. H. Hebert Fighting Joe Hooker xiii. 191 Lee was..not unaware of what was going on, and, as he was predetermined to fight if success seemed possible, Hooker's plan was exposed to the dangers attendant upon [etc.].

1994 Church Times 16 Sept. 17/1 The unsettlable debate about authorship, conservatives predetermined to defend them as Pauline, liberals to ignore them as..appendages to the Pauline corpus.