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What does predestine mean?

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Verb
  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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Genetic factors may predestine a person to a life of heavy smoking, drinking, and drug-taking.
Although nothing in his immediate background appeared to predestine him for a music career.
He lived, as it were, under the shadow of some fatal curse which seemed to predestine all his actions to failure.
Predestine looks worth a bet the Mercedes-Benz of Lincoln Parts Express National Hunt Juvenile Novices' Hurdle at Market Rasen tomorrow.
Eriugena argues in De divina praedestinatione that God, being perfectly good, wants all humans to be saved, and does not predestine souls to damnation.
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.

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