preordain
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preordain (third-person singular simple present preordains, present participle preordaining, simple past and past participle preordained)
- (transitive) To determine the fate of something in advance.
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night:
- A child! If here the heart turns sick with rath
To see a little one from birth defiled,
Or lame or blind, as preordained to languish
Through youthless life
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To determine the fate of something in advance
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