1847 W. Hamilton Let. to De Morgan 32 In the first, common, or Aristotelic meaning, definite, or more precisely predefinite (διοριστὸς, προσδιοριστὸς) is equivalent to expressed, overt, or, more proximately, to designate and pre-designate.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) III. xiii. 244 Propositions have either..their quantity..marked out by a verbal sign, or they have not; such quantity being involved in every actual thought. They may be called in the one case (a) Predesignate; in the other (b) Preindesignate.

1901 J. M.Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. II. 324 Predesignate, a term applied by Hamilton to verbal propositions whose quantity, as universal or particular, is expressed.

c1820 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) V. 113 Those Professors, whom Lord Bacon excellently pre-designated as Schismatics in Manners.

1854 Southern Literary Messenger 20 573/2 In addition to the qualities which we have signalized as artistic, there is a third element which has been pre-designated for distinction, as Popular.

1888 J. Martineau Stud. Relig. I. 287 Its cornea cleared and polished, its lens curved and set,..and the very spot pre-designated on which the image may best be thrown.

1904 J. Hastings Dict. Bible V. 695 Attempts to prove that the time and all the details of fulfilment were already predesignated in the facts of the OT [= Old Testament] history of salvation.

1931 Bot. Gaz. 92 410 They appear before any protoxylem or protophloem cells are differentiated, and predesignate the location of these elements.

1996 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 17 Dec. n6 Skaters can compete in three events but must predesignate only two as point-scoring events.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. 254 The Exceptive and Limitative propositions in which the predicate and subject are predesignated, are to be rendered into logical simplicity.

1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic v. 135 (note) The English Exclusive particles are, one, only, alone, exclusively, precisely, just, sole, solely, nothing but, &c. These particles annexed to the Subject predesignate the Predicate universally, or to its whole extent.

1883 Science 8 June 516/1 Continuous random sampling of a given natural class must lead us towards discovering the true proportion of cases of the presence of a predesignated character in individuals of the class.

1898 Classical Rev. 12 275/1 For a pre-designated successor to accompany his chief to the hunting-grounds would be curious.

1934 Pacific Affairs 7 91 A rule of the game was that the winners should treat the losers at dinner in a pre-designated restaurant.

1996 D. F. Wallace Infinite Jest 31 I've got this oral-lyrologist who's going to be outside Brighton Best Savings wearing a predesignated necktie at straight-up five.