predeterminativeadj.

1677 J. Howe Post-script Late Let. Reconcileableness of God's Prescience 26 Are all for Durandus's way that are against a predeterminative influence to wicked actions?

1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV 23 This efficacious concurse, as it determines and applies the second cause to act, is both in sacred Scripture and by scholastic Theologues termed determinative and predeterminative.

1763 E. Wigglesworth Doctr. Reprobation briefly Considered ii. 19 The doctrines of efficacious permission, and prædeterminative concourse to actions intrinsically evil.

1848 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) July 336/2 The guiding principles of the one are tentative in their character; while in the other, they are rationally predeterminative and sure.

1856 H. P. Tappan Elem. Logic ii. iii. 138 The difficulty which exists, arises chiefly, I think, from the primordial and predeterminative character of Ideas.

1913 Amer. Naturalist 47 536 The armadillo quadruplets..should..take the place of human twins as material illustrating the potency of predeterminative factors in development.

1997 Amer. Libraries (Nexis) 16 June 82 There is a clear distinction between imagination as a creative function unto itself, needing no external tools, and the predeterminative nature of rendering a vast array of mutimedia choices into an ‘original’ work.

1961 R. B. Long Sentence & its Parts ii. 42 In only John the adverb only is essentially predeterminative exactly as it is in only the older children.