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predestinator|prɪˈdɛstɪneɪtə(r)|
[agent-n. in L. form f. predestinate v. + -or 2; so F. prédestinateur (Littré), in sense 2 below.]
1. He who predestinates.
1700C. Nesse Antid. Armin. (1827) 58 The act of predestination is put in the will..of the predestinated, and not in that of the divine predestinator.
2. One who believes in or maintains the doctrine of predestination; a predestinarian.
1579W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue, Brief Descr., Those that are called Frewil men (for so are they termed of the Predestinators). 1647Cowley Mistress, My Fate iii, Let all Prædestinators me produce, Who struggle with eternal bonds in vain. 1812Religionism 29 Preachers, predestinators some, and others Arminians. 1956R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond xxi. 240 It is the Predestinators not the Pelagians who, as it says in the 9th Article, do vainly talk.
Hence preˈdestinatory a. (rare) = predestinate ppl. a. 2.
1967B. Wright tr. Queneau's Between Blue & Blue xix. 203 If society gave me this predestinatory name, nature for her part provided me with peculiarly active grey matter. |