单词 | pre-ordination |
释义 | pre-ordinationn. Chiefly with reference to God, a god, fate, etc.: the action of ordaining, or deciding (an outcome, course of events, etc.) in advance; the state or condition of being predestined; predestination, predetermination; 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 1527 tr. W. Capito De Pueris Instituendis Ecclesiae Argentinensis Isagoge sig. C 7v Where as we are all from the begynnynge reserved by his eternall preordinacion and godly wisdom other to death everlastynge or els predestinate vnto life eternall. ?1545 J. Bale 2nd Pt. Image Both Churches ii. sig. Qv Yt ys..to be mynystred vnto them by the preordynacyon of God. 1582 in Bible (Rheims) Acts xiii. (margin) They beleeued specially by Gods grace and preordination. 1612 J. White Eng. Paradise Discovered 9 If any bold bayard shall say, there is no preordination. 1678 A. Marvell Def. John Howe in Wks. (1875) IV. 213 Many who grant prescience, deny preordination. 1717 S. Clarke tr. G. W. Leibniz in Papers between Leibnitz & Clarke 157 Hypothetical Necessity is that, which the Supposition or Hypothesis of God's Foresight and Pre-ordination lays upon future Contingents. a1779 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses (new ed.) ix. i, in Wks. (1788) IV. 122 It would be trifling to speak of a pre-ordination, which was not to be understood of a pre-operation. 1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey IV. vi. vii. 259 No longer able to resist the conviction which is hourly impressed on me, I recognize in every contingency the pre-ordination of my fate. 1888 N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 170 A remarkable feature in the histories of these gigantic serpents is the evident pre-ordination of the conqueror. 1948 Mind 57 180 The well-worn antagonisms of the immanent and transcendent, of finite sinfulness and divine perfection and preordination, which centuries of theological brooding have failed to dissipate. 1989 W. Horwood Duncton Found xxxi. 555 There was a sense of foreboding in the air, of preordination. 2005 Daily Mail (Nexis) 12 July 68 I've spoken to our legal people and they believed that there was an element of pre-ordination about the verdict. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1527 |
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