verb
- Foreordain by divine will or decree.
- synonyms: predestine, predestinate, foreordain
- Foreordain or determine beforehand.
- synonyms: predestine, foreordain, preordain
adjective
- Established or prearranged unalterably.
- usage: "his place in history was foreordained"; "a sense of predestinate inevitability about it"; "it seemed predestined since the beginning of the world"
- synonyms: predestinate, predestined
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