1598 F. Meres tr. Luis de Granada Deuotion vii. 212 By forecasting after a certaine manner, and preordayning, what is to be done?

a1625 King James VI & I Lusus Regius (1901) 51 It dois from Goddis preordining flou.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iv. xlvi. 374 God's Will, and Præordaining of things to come.

1871 St. G. Mivart On Genesis of Species xi. 254 Evidence of the preordaining of such relation of power to the appreciation.

1974 Shakespeare Q. 25 246 This..may prevent too much preordaining of young people's behavior of which educationists ought to beware, even though education entails some planning.

1998 Jrnl. Relig. 78 569 Schleiermacher's concept of God's omniscient preordaining of all things speaks from another world.

1607 J. Davies Summa Totalis l. 2115 It has Relation to his preordaining Lawes.

1654 E. Leigh Syst. Divinity v. v. 424 His hand to note his concurring power, and his counsel to note his pre-ordaining will.

a1763 J. Byrom Poems (1894–5) II. ii. 504 And for what End this Pre-ordaining Grace?

1766 Merlinus Liberatus sig. C8 We see the Seeds of Fruits come up presently not to maturity, but receive by degrees the preordaining influences of the Sun and other Stars.

1844 I. Williams Baptistery II. iv. 70 Deep plans of preordaining thought.

1855 A. Potter Lect. Evid. Christianity 141 To some, Providence is but the prescience that foresaw, and the preordaining power that, in the beginning, provided for every future contingency.

1953 Rev. Eng. Stud. 4 10 The old pagan concept of fate, whereby wyrd was defined as the active, pre-ordaining will of God.

1988 Washington Post (Nexis) 4 Jan. b1 The detective..stuck with the preordaining moniker of Philip Marlow, spelled without the ‘e’.