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词汇 predestine
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Definition of predestine in English:

predestine

verb priːˈdɛstɪnpriˈdɛstɪn
[with object]
  • 1(of God) destine (someone) for a particular fate or purpose.

    (上帝)预定(某人)的命运

    Calvinists believed that every person was predestined by God to go to heaven or to hell

    卡尔文教派认为上帝已为每个人预定了上天堂还是下地狱的命运。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Violet's behavior at the ball was caused by the simple fact that she saw a chance to leave Prydyn through marriage and she took it, even if she was predestined to fail.
    • Unlike Simba, she is not predestined for greatness.
    • But you are not predestined to repeat your father's mistakes.
    • From a very young age, he was predestined to follow a classic scientist's career.
    • The first act of God to remedy the damage and danger, was to predestine an elect people to be restored to the image of his son.
    • Although Protestant reformers taught that God had predestined each individual to salvation or damnation, they still expected her to live a godly life, obeying God rather than man.
    • God might have predestined us to suffer from such a condition,’ he said.
    • These are troubling times we are in mired in, for the Lord is witness to the crimes of his children and has predestined us to suffer for our sins.
    • Calvin, for example, never explicitly developed the doctrine of supralapsarianism, the belief that God predestined salvation or damnation for all humans even before the fall of Adam.
    • He proposes that the pot may not criticize the potter, and that similarly humans may not object to God, who predestines some to salvation but rejects others.
    • It is through grace, as Augustine explains, not merit, that God predestines his elect.
    • Look at Ephesians 1: 5, ‘He predestined us to be adopted as His sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will.’
    • If anyone were predestined to write an opera on the life of Saint Francis of Assisi, it was surely Olivier Messiaen.
    Synonyms
    preordained, ordained, foreordained, destined, predetermined, fated
    1. 1.1 Determine (an outcome or course of events) in advance by divine will or fate.
      命定,注定(结果,事件经过)
      she was certain that fate was with her and everything was predestined

      她确信命运与她同在,一切都是命中注定的。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Then, when I finally sat down to write it, the entire novel veered completely off its predestined course.
      • Often times these predestined routes are quite creative, but mostly tanks follow the road and stop at a pre-set locations and enemy jets sometimes fly straight past you.
      • They continued on their predestined course, and Copperhead exhaled.
      • Do not these causes and conditions, however complex, lead in the end to a mechanically predestined result, rather like an intricate clockwork wound up and set ticking?
      • It steers her vessel down the river, as if on a predestined course.
      • Tenacious resistance was also demonstrated by the remnants of the First Army caught in the jaws of the German trap and knowing that the outcome was predestined.
      • Making room for new histories, that situate the events of l965 as one of many possibilities rather than as a predestined outcome, may be one way of reviving the truth and reconciliation commission in another form.
      • Why would God give us freedom and free will if everything is predestined?
      • Although the lead swapped hands just five times in the match there was something predestined about the result.
      • Its raging waters rushed past him and disappeared over the horizon in the distance, continuing on its predestined course in a wild frenzy, oblivious to his presence.
      • But I know I'm not going to pay any attention to those who tell me that the election result is predestined, even if… make that especially if they tell me what I want to hear.
      • Looking back from the year 2030 it will appear as if the world conspired to ensure that a predestined event occurred.
      • Of course Rhyann had absolutely no clue what exactly what predestined event her grandmother was trying to halt.
      • Events take on a predestined feel after they have happened; we only remember the hunches that turned out right.
      • Zhi Ming went on to say that as a monk, one follows predestined arrangements and doesn't necessarily expect to win such cases.
      Synonyms
      preordained, ordained, foreordained, destined, predetermined, fated
      rare predestinated

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French predestiner or ecclesiastical Latin praedestinare (see predestinate).

Definition of predestine in US English:

predestine

verbprēˈdestinpriˈdɛstɪn
[with object]usually be predestined
  • 1(of God) destine (someone) for a particular fate or purpose.

    (上帝)预定(某人)的命运

    Calvinists believed that every person was predestined by God to go to heaven or to hell

    卡尔文教派认为上帝已为每个人预定了上天堂还是下地狱的命运。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • From a very young age, he was predestined to follow a classic scientist's career.
    • Although Protestant reformers taught that God had predestined each individual to salvation or damnation, they still expected her to live a godly life, obeying God rather than man.
    • But you are not predestined to repeat your father's mistakes.
    • Calvin, for example, never explicitly developed the doctrine of supralapsarianism, the belief that God predestined salvation or damnation for all humans even before the fall of Adam.
    • The first act of God to remedy the damage and danger, was to predestine an elect people to be restored to the image of his son.
    • God might have predestined us to suffer from such a condition,’ he said.
    • He proposes that the pot may not criticize the potter, and that similarly humans may not object to God, who predestines some to salvation but rejects others.
    • If anyone were predestined to write an opera on the life of Saint Francis of Assisi, it was surely Olivier Messiaen.
    • Look at Ephesians 1: 5, ‘He predestined us to be adopted as His sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will.’
    • These are troubling times we are in mired in, for the Lord is witness to the crimes of his children and has predestined us to suffer for our sins.
    • Unlike Simba, she is not predestined for greatness.
    • It is through grace, as Augustine explains, not merit, that God predestines his elect.
    • Violet's behavior at the ball was caused by the simple fact that she saw a chance to leave Prydyn through marriage and she took it, even if she was predestined to fail.
    Synonyms
    preordained, ordained, foreordained, destined, predetermined, fated
    1. 1.1 Determine (an outcome or course of events) in advance by divine will or fate.
      命定,注定(结果,事件经过)
      she was certain that fate was with her and everything was predestined

      她确信命运与她同在,一切都是命中注定的。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Making room for new histories, that situate the events of l965 as one of many possibilities rather than as a predestined outcome, may be one way of reviving the truth and reconciliation commission in another form.
      • It steers her vessel down the river, as if on a predestined course.
      • Events take on a predestined feel after they have happened; we only remember the hunches that turned out right.
      • Of course Rhyann had absolutely no clue what exactly what predestined event her grandmother was trying to halt.
      • Although the lead swapped hands just five times in the match there was something predestined about the result.
      • Looking back from the year 2030 it will appear as if the world conspired to ensure that a predestined event occurred.
      • Then, when I finally sat down to write it, the entire novel veered completely off its predestined course.
      • Why would God give us freedom and free will if everything is predestined?
      • Often times these predestined routes are quite creative, but mostly tanks follow the road and stop at a pre-set locations and enemy jets sometimes fly straight past you.
      • But I know I'm not going to pay any attention to those who tell me that the election result is predestined, even if… make that especially if they tell me what I want to hear.
      • Do not these causes and conditions, however complex, lead in the end to a mechanically predestined result, rather like an intricate clockwork wound up and set ticking?
      • Tenacious resistance was also demonstrated by the remnants of the First Army caught in the jaws of the German trap and knowing that the outcome was predestined.
      • They continued on their predestined course, and Copperhead exhaled.
      • Zhi Ming went on to say that as a monk, one follows predestined arrangements and doesn't necessarily expect to win such cases.
      • Its raging waters rushed past him and disappeared over the horizon in the distance, continuing on its predestined course in a wild frenzy, oblivious to his presence.
      Synonyms
      preordained, ordained, foreordained, destined, predetermined, fated

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French predestiner or ecclesiastical Latin praedestinare (see predestinate).

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