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单词 predestine
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predestineadj.

Brit. /priːˈdɛst(ᵻ)n/, /prᵻˈdɛst(ᵻ)n/, U.S. /priˈdɛst(ə)n/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: predestine v.
Etymology: Irregularly < predestine v. Compare earlier predestined adj.
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.

Brit. /priːˈdɛst(ᵻ)n/, /prᵻˈdɛst(ᵻ)n/, U.S. /priˈdɛst(ə)n/
Forms: late Middle English predestayne, late Middle English predesten, late Middle English predesteyn, late Middle English–1500s predestyne, late Middle English– predestine, 1600s predestin.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French predestiner; Latin praedestināre.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French predestiner (a1190 in Old French; French prédestiner ) and its etymon classical Latin praedestināre predestinate v. Compare Catalan predestinar (14th cent.), Spanish predestinar (15th cent.), Portuguese predestinar (14th cent.), Italian predestinare (1321). Compare slightly later predestinate v.
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.
3. transitive. To be an irrevocable omen or sign of. Obsolete. rare.
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1647 A. Cowley Tree in Mistress v Alas, poor Youth, thy Love will never thrive! This blasted Tree Predestines it.

Derivatives

preˈdestining n.
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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).
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