predestinarianadj.n.

a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) p. xix By way of Reply to the objected authority of S. Austin as to some part of the Predestinarian Controversie.

1651 R. Watson Ακολουθος: Second Faire Warning xii. 165 The advantage you take of his denial..makes your Praedestinarian Godships no lesse peremptorie in the immutabilitie of your decree.

1701 tr. J. Le Clerc Lives Primitive Fathers 382 Errors..to which the Divines of Marseilles gave the Name of Predestinarian Heresie.

1755 J. Wesley Let. 24 Sept. (1931) III. 144 But you seem a little to misapprehend what we speak of hearing predestinarian preachers.

1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. vii. 434 Those who did not hold the predestinarian theory were branded with reproach by the names of free-willers and Pelagians.

1847 J. Martineau Endeavours Christian Life II. xiii. 213 Every Fatalist or Predestinarian scheme destroys merit.

1911 A. C. McGiffert Protestant Thought before Kant v. 83 In his predestinarian ideas, Bucer agreed with Zwingli.

1994 J. C. McLelland in W. Klempa Burning Bush & Few Acres of Snow 118 A strong statement of the dark side of predestinarian Calvinism..this insider's conscience insists that we face the tragic or pessimistic results in individual and societal instances.

1656 J. Bèohme Aurora xv. 348 Whether this kindled fire-spirit hath Right therein; and whether God himself hath kindled it,..let the Electionists or Predestinarians, or those that dispute so about Election, justifie it, and prove it in Nature, if they can.

1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety ix. 272 Why does the Predestinarian so adventurously climb into Heaven, to ransack the celestial Archives?

1700 J. Collier Second Defence 63 Now, that Oedipus was no Predestinarian, I think is pretty clear from his Management.

1740 Gentleman's Mag. July 344/1 She is a Predestinarian in Gallantry, and affirms, when a Woman engages in an amour,..that there was a Necessity she should consent to them.

1782 W. F. Martyn Geogr. Mag. 1 41 The Turks being great predestinarians.

1840 H. Cockton Life Valentine Vox 165 To the predestinarian it [sc. phrenology] is a source of great comfort.

1882 W. Smith & H. Wace Dict. Christian Biogr. III. 46/2 Jerome is not like Augustine, a thorough~going predestinarian, but a ‘synergist’, maintaining the coexistence of free will.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 715/1 Mahommed..was a rigid predestinarian and a strict observer of the law.

1983 M. Carrithers in K. Thomas Founders of Faith (1986) ii. 29 There were predestinarians who believed in transmigration but who felt that every sentient being must pass through every possible fate before release was possible.

2005 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune (Nexis) 29 Apr. 10 a As a predestinarian, I don't believe that God will lose any human souls that he has purposed to live on the planet in this or any other time.

1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 222 A kind of a Turkish Predestinarianism.

1831 R. Blakey Ess. Good & Evil 108 Many systems and views, both in morals and religion, are maintained upon a more slender foundation than that of Predestinarianism.

1930 T. C. Hall Relig. Background Amer. Culture vii. 66 The predestinarianism that underlies so much Christian thinking, Catholic as well as Protestant.

1997 J. C. D. Clark in N. Ferguson Virtual Hist. (1998) ii. 167 Qualifying Puritan predestinarianism with a new sense of the force of chance.