单词 | preordain |
释义 | preordainv. transitive. To ordain or appoint beforehand ; to decide or determine (an outcome, course of events, etc.) in advance, esp. by divine will or fate; to predestine, predetermine. Frequently in passive. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > predestine or predetermine [verb (transitive)] shapea1000 dightc1000 besee1297 weirda1300 destinec1300 ordainc1390 ettlea1400 destinyc1400 eure1428 fortunec1430 foreordainc1440 order1532 preordain1533 predefine1542 prefine1545 destinate1548 fore-pointa1557 fore-appoint1561 pre-ordinate1565 foreset1573 forepurpose1581 sort1592 predestinate1593 predetermine1601 pre-appoint1603 forecall1613 fatea1616 predesign1630 predeterminate1637 pre-order1640 predestine1642 ordinate1850 foreordinate1858 preset1926 1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay 68 Quhen ye time is cum preordinit be God. 1576 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (rev. ed.) I. 102/2 No aduersitie or perturbation happeneth..which his prouident wisedome dooth not foresee before and preordaine. 1582 Bible (Rheims) Acts xxii. 15 [14] The God of our fathers hath prëordained thee, that thou shouldest know his wil. 1655 R. Fanshawe tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad iii. 60 Just Nemesis should pre-ordain Thy Father-in-Law to triumph over Thee. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 127 Unweeting he fulfill'd The purpos'd Counsel pre-ordain'd and fixt Of the most High. View more context for this quotation 1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem v. 60 The now conscious Stars have preordain'd this Moment for my Happiness. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. iii. 372 This day is preordain'd the last. 1830 J. Neal Authorship iv. 40 I had now come to the place where I was pre-ordained to meet her that I was in search of. 1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. xiv. 295 Having preordained the question to be put to the people. 1894 C. H. H. Parry Stud. Great Composers: Schubert 226 In Italian works, the form was, as it were, pre-ordained. 1920 Young Judaean Nov. 86/2 How that dreidle hated to fall and give up its precious secret, but since the creation of the world it is preordained that driedlach must fall. 1973 Portsmouth (New Hampsh.) Herald 11 Dec. 9/2 There will be a decline in economic activity... Existing ingredients in the economy preordain this. 1991 Reason Aug. 12/2 The logical weaknesses of both sides was preordained by the fateful constitutional compromise of 1787. Derivatives preorˈdainer n. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > as creator of destiny destinourc1400 destinator1579 predestinator1600 preordainer1616 1616 T. Adams Sacrifice of Thankefulnesse 14 God willing to haue the prediction fulfilled, dispensing and disposing all things, is brought in as the preordainer of Iacobs lie, that I say not the Patron. 1890 J. Martineau Seat Authority Relig. iv. iii. 480 The preordainer of the whole world-scheme through its series of ages. preorˈdainment n. pre-ordination. 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 a1847 G. Aguilar Women of Israel (1872) I. i. iii. 106 Rebekah had equal power to ‘wait for the Lord’ as to urge her son to deception. That she chose the latter was human frailty, no pre-ordainment. 1997 Winterthur Portfolio 32 59/1 The biblical parallel expresses a sense of preordainment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < v.1533 |
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