1. Established or prearranged unalterably
   "it seemed predestined since the beginning of the world"
   - foreordained, predestinate

1. Decree or determine beforehand 
2. Foreordain by divine will or decree
   - predestinate, foreordain 
3. Foreordain or determine beforehand
   - foreordain, preordain

See also: certain, predestination, sure

Type of: ordain, predetermine

• third man
• third party
• third person
• third power
• third rail
• Third Reich
• third sacker
• third stomach
• third tonsil
• third trimester
• third ventricle
• Third World
• third-class mail
• third-degree burn
• third-dimensional
• third-dimensionality
• third-place finish
• third-rate
• third-rater
• third-year
• thirdhand
• thirdly
• thirst
• thirst for knowledge
• thirster