predestine

See also: prédestiné, prédestine, and predestiné

English

Etymology

From Old French prédestiner, from Medieval Latin praedestinare. Displaced native Old English foreteohhian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹeˈdɛstɪn/, IPA^(key): /pɹiˈdɛstɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛstɪn

Verb

predestine (third-person singular simple present predestines, present participle predestining, simple past and past participle predestined)

1. (transitive) To determine the future or the fate of something in advance; to preordain.
2. (theology, transitive) To foreordain by divine will.

Related terms

• destine
• predestination
• predestined
• predestiny

Translations

to determine the future of something in advance

• Bulgarian: предопределям (bg) (predopredeljam)
• Czech: předurčit
• Finnish: predestinoida, määrätä ennalta, ennaltamäärätä
• Hungarian: predesztinál (hu)
• Italian: predestinare (it), predeterminare (it), preordinare (it)
• Old English: foreteohhian
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: предодре́дити

  Roman: predodréditi (sh)

• Spanish: predestinar (es)

Anagrams

• diterpenes

Portuguese

Verb

predestine

1. inflection of predestinar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

predestine

1. inflection of predestinar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative