单词 | pre-ordinately |
释义 | pre-ordinatelyadv. By preordination; in accordance with a previously established rule or principle; predictively. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [adverb] fatally1574 predestinately1579 predeterminately1859 pre-ordinately1894 1894 W. D. Spelman in Voice (N.Y.) 22 Nov. 6/3 The Countess..should be summoned to court as soon as [etc.]..which time, however, preordinately, should never come. 1984 Educ. Evaluation & Policy Anal. 6 132/2 The evaluation design is seen as emerging responsively rather than being imposed preordinately. 1992 Sci., Technol., & Human Values 17 480 Jefferson favors educating them on such questions over preordinately, externally, and paternalistically restricting people's right to control their own destiny. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1894 |
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