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Definition of predestine in English: predestineverb 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 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
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French predestiner or ecclesiastical Latin praedestinare (see predestinate). Definition of predestine in US English: predestineverbprēˈdestinpriˈdɛstɪn [with object]usually be predestined1(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 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
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French predestiner or ecclesiastical Latin praedestinare (see predestinate). |