Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
established or prearranged unalterably;
- Example: "his place in history was foreordained"- Example: "a sense of predestinate inevitability about it"- Example: "it seemed predestined since the beginning of the world"[syn: foreordained, predestinate, predestined]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Predestine \Pre*des"tine\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Predestined; p.
pr. & vb. n. Predestining.] [Cf. F. pr['e]destiner. See
Predestinate.]
To decree beforehand; to foreordain; to predestinate.
--Young.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
predestined
adj 1: established or prearranged unalterably; "his place in
history was foreordained"; "a sense of predestinate
inevitability about it"; "it seemed predestined since the
beginning of the world" [syn: foreordained,
predestinate, predestined]