单词 | predestinator |
释义 | predestinatorn. Chiefly Theology. 1. A person who believes in or upholds the doctrine of predestination; = predestinarian n. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > doctrine of salvation > [noun] > predestinarianism > adherent predestination?1503 predestinator?1557 Predestinatian1630 predestinatist1630 predeterminant1630 predestinarian1656 predeterminera1678 predestinationista1852 providentialist1862 ?1557 in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 1605/2 Henry Harte is the principall of all those that are called frewill men. For so they are termed of the predestinators. 1647 A. Cowley My Fate in Mistress iii Let all Prædestinators me produce, Who struggle with eternal bonds in vain. 1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness x. iv. 500 This sad Opinion of the Predestinatours does confront this design at the very first sight. 1750 J. Ozell tr. F. Rabelais Wks. (new ed.) IV. vi. 107 The reader has already seen how in his turn Rabelais delineates Calvin under the names of predestinator and impostor. 1812 Religionism 29 Preachers, predestinators some, and others Arminians. 1956 R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond xxi. 240 It is the Predestinators not the Pelagians who, as it says in the 9th Article, do vainly talk. 1990 D. A. Penny Freewill or Predestination i. 28 Somewhat greater precision in identifying different emphases within the ‘predestinators’ was beginning to maintain itself in England prior to the accession of Elizabeth. 2. (a) Frequently in form Predestinator. God regarded as the person who predetermines or foreordains all things. (b) More generally: a person who predestinates something. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > as creator of destiny destinourc1400 destinator1579 predestinator1600 preordainer1616 1600 W. Perkins Golden Chaine lii. 164 Christ is said to be predestinate: but..he is not predestinated, but togither with God the Father, a Predestinator. 1707 tr. A. Bourignon Renovation of Gospel-spirit Introd. 122 God will never save the Evil, which he rejecteth,..being no Respecter or Predestinator of any one's Person. 1774 A. M. Toplady Hist. Proof Doctrinal Calvinism Church of Eng. II. xviii. 506 The Petitioners next intreat, that they may enjoy their Opinion of God's not being the Author and Predestinator of Man's Sin and Damnation. ?1819 Nesse's Antidote against Arminianism (new ed.) 58 The act of predestination is put in the will..of the predestinated, and not in that of the divine Predestinator. 1883 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 715/2 The flies figuring as wretched humanity, and the fly-trapper as the dread Predestinator. 1923 Times 17 Sept. 19/3 Evolutionary predestination..necessarily connoted a predestinator. 1926 Mod. Lang. Notes 41 48 It is clear that Nemesis is playing two rôles: that of predestinator as well as avenger. 1999 Commentary (Nexis) Sept. 32 [Genetic technologists] see themselves not as predestinators but as facilitators, merely providing knowledge and technique that people can freely choose to use. Derivatives ˌpredestiˈnatory adj. = predestinating adj.; (also occasionally) that believes in predestination. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [adjective] > fated or predestined born1357 destinablec1374 destinalc1374 fatalc1374 predestinatec1384 foreordainedc1420 ordinate?a1425 destiny?1473 preordinatea1475 prefinitec1475 pointed1523 predestined1545 determined1546 ordinated1562 predestinated1571 preordained?1580 fore-appointeda1586 predeterminate1601 predetermined1601 destinated1604 destinate1605 destined1609 predesigned1668 predefinite1678 cut and dry1710 fated1715 weirded1820 laid-down1839 foreordinated1858 predesignated1883 predestinatory1893 preset1926 predefined1929 predestine1962 bashert1963 1893 Davenport (Iowa) Tribune 10 Oct. How happy would the predestinatory writer of the above be if he only believes what he wrote. 1967 B. Wright tr. R. Queneau Between Blue & Blue xix. 203 If society gave me this predestinatory name, nature for her part provided me with peculiarly active grey matter. 1995 Eng. Hist. Rev. 110 167 Hus was no more tolerant of the post-Constantinian church than his accusers were of Hus's predestinatory church. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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