| 单词 | predestinate |
| 释义 | predestinate (once / 18881 pages) adjv Something that's predestinate has been planned or arranged already — there's no way to change its outcome. Some religious observers believe that life is predestinate, willed by God. If you believe that people have free will, the ability to make decisions that change the course of their lives, then you don't agree that everything is predestinate. If, however, you think God or fate or nature has already determined what will happen to you, you believe in a predestinate life. This adjective comes from the Old French prédestiner, "ordain of God," from the Latin root praedestinare, "determine beforehand." WORD FAMILYpredestinate: predestinated, predestinately, predestinates, predestinating+/destination: destinations/destine: destination, destined, destines, destining, predestine/predestinarian: predestinarianism, predestinarians/predestination: predestinationist, predestinations/predestine: predestinarian, predestinate, predestination, predestined, predestines, predestining/predestined: predestinedly USAGE EXAMPLESAt last I see it, I feel it; I penetrate to the predestinated purpose of my life. Slate(Oct 22, 2015) She thanked and complimented him warmly, but without being very much astonished at his success, for she began to think he was predestinated. Dinet, Etienne, The Life of Mohammad—The Prophet of...(2012) It is unreasonable to suppose that because God has predestinated all events, we need not take any step in the matter of our salvation. Blaikie, William Garden, The Expositor's Bible: The First Bo...(2012) 1adj established or prearranged unalterably a sense of predestinate inevitability about it Syn foreordained, predestined certain, sure certain to occur; destined or inevitable 2v foreordain by divine will or decree Syn|Hyper foreordain, predestine predetermine determine beforehand |
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