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What does predestine mean?

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  1. (transitive) To determine the future or the fate of something in advance; to preordain.
  2. (theology) To foreordain by divine will.
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Its many advantages predestine the system for use in banks, open plan offices, shopping centres, airports, shopping arcades, and anywhere else where elegant and convenient sliding glass walls are needed for room partitioning.
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.
Eriugena argues in De divina praedestinatione that God, being perfectly good, wants all humans to be saved, and does not predestine souls to damnation.
Independence, impartiality and experience as a mediator predestine the notary for this task.
He lived, as it were, under the shadow of some fatal curse which seemed to predestine all his actions to failure.
Genetic factors may predestine a person to a life of heavy smoking, drinking, and drug-taking.

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