单词 | predestine |
释义 | predestineadj. rare. = predestined adj. 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 1962 A. Huxley Island xiii. 204 These people are the propagandist's predestine victims. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). predestinev. 1. transitive. Chiefly Theology. To preordain or pre-appoint (a person) by divine will to a particular fate or to do something; to predetermine (an outcome, course of events, etc.) by divine will; spec. (of God) to pre-appoint to eternal salvation, to elect. Frequently in passive. Also with clause as object, and (occasionally) intransitive. Cf. predestinate v. 1. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > save, redeem [verb (transitive)] > by predestination predestinea1425 predestinatea1500 a1425 (a1400) Northern Pauline Epist. (1916) Eph. i. 5 Þe blessyd god and fadyr of oure lord iesu crist..has chosyn vs in hym byfore þe constitucyoun of þe world, þat we schulde ben holy..þe whiche has predesteynd [L. prædestinavit] vs in to þe adopcyoun of þe sonys in hym þurgh iesu crist. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 305 Be-soȝt sekirly þis sire..Þat scho myȝt weterly wete..Quatkyn poynt or plyte predestend hire were. 1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton E vj Syth al were ordeyned and predestyned whan man shold deye. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. ccclix Poule the apostel saithe of hem that tofore werne purposed to be sayntes, as thus, whiche that god before wyst, & hath predestyned conformes of ymages of his sonne..& whom he hath predestyned, hem he hath cleped. 1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. v. f. 39 With the Ghostes of our dere parents our soules amids the infernall fieldes be predestined to raunge and wander. 1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 122 Little thought he then, that she was predestined for him, by the high hand of heaven where all mariages are made. 1687 E. Settle Refl. Dryden's Plays 12 Heaven predestins nothing for any man that should raise him to an excess of joy or grief. 1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 24 The day predestin'd to reward his woes. 1780 A. Smith Let. 26 Oct. in Corr. (1977) ccvii. 248 I think it is predestined that I shall never write a letter to you; except to ask some favour of you. 1786 R. Polwhele tr. Theocritus Idyllia & Epigrams xxiv. 182 Each Ill that Heav'n predestines, Man must bear. 1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. xii. 177 He that is to be saved will be saved, and he that is predestined to be damned will be damned! 1863 M. Roberts Denise I. 126 The destruction, the waste in Nature; the plants that bud and never bring forth fruit..the Calvinism of Nature, things predestined to destruction! 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. ix. xxxviii. 243 God predestines; man is free. How this is we cannot say. 1929 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 30 Dec. 7/3 What good can come from prayer if by the will of God all things are predestined and man has no alternative? 1953 K. S. Latourette Hist. Christianity xiii. 361 For reasons which we cannot fathom, God predestines some to his eternal life. 1998 Church Times 20/3 Theologians of the Augustinian–Calvinistic tradition have argued..that..God has from eternity predestined some for heaven and others for hell. 2. transitive. gen. To determine or establish (an outcome, course of events, etc.) in advance, esp. as if by divine will or fate; to compel (a person) as if by predestination; to fate, doom. Frequently in passive. Cf. predestinate v. 2.In passive use, without contextual indication of divine agency, it is not always possible to distinguish this sense from sense 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > predestine or predetermine [verb (transitive)] shapea1000 dightc1000 besee1297 weirda1300 destinec1300 ordainc1390 ettlea1400 destinyc1400 eure1428 fortunec1430 foreordainc1440 order1532 preordain1533 predefine1542 prefine1545 destinate1548 fore-pointa1557 fore-appoint1561 pre-ordinate1565 foreset1573 forepurpose1581 sort1592 predestinate1593 predetermine1601 pre-appoint1603 forecall1613 fatea1616 predesign1630 predeterminate1637 pre-order1640 predestine1642 ordinate1850 foreordinate1858 preset1926 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 36 Voluminous Papers, whose best folios are predestin'd to no better end then to make winding sheetes in Lent for Pilchers. 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 17 Here, the Soul sits in Council, ponders past, Predestines future Action. 1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xxi. 525 The white man, who seems predestined to inherit the country. 1845 C. Dickens Chimes iii. 112 But his heart yearned towards the child, for the love of those same shoeless and stockingless boys, predestined (by the Alderman) to turn out bad. 1868 T. T. Lynch Rivulet (ed. 3) clvii. 192 Within the egg how darkly lies Even the bird of paradise, Predestined for the sunniest skies! 1957 Mod. Lang. Notes 72 190 Who would expect a godfather to give a child a name that would predestine it to become a cruel person? 1997 S. Berger Search for Normality ii. 30 The wars of unification led to an idealisation of war in German historiography which predestined historians to become the heralds of war both in 1914 and 1939. ΚΠ 1647 A. Cowley Tree in Mistress v Alas, poor Youth, thy Love will never thrive! This blasted Tree Predestines it. Derivatives preˈdestining n. ΚΠ a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1869) I. 179 (MED) Crist..is in ech lyme of þe Chirche and bringiþ wiþ him a grace þat clerkes clepen predestynynge. 1825 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 338 Predestinings of joy. 1999 Irish Times (Nexis) 3 Apr. 67 The days leading to the Crucifixion are plotted from the hints and biases of every source she can find, all interlaced in the frame of God's predestining and Pilate's dumb obedience. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1962v.a1425 |
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