Definition of Preordains

1. Verb. (third-person singular of preordain) ¹

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Definition of Preordains

1. preordain [v] - See also: preordain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Preordains

preoptimization
preoptimizations
preoptimize
preoptimized
preoptimizes
preoptimizing
preoption
preoptions
preoral
preorbital
preordain
preordained
preordaining
preordainment
preordainments
preordains (current term)
preorder
preordered
preordering
preorders
preordinance
preordinances
preordination
preordinations
preorganization
preorganize
preorganized
preoutbreak
preovulatory

Literary usage of Preordains

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"An inflexible internal necessity turns man's will whithersoever God preordains. With Calvin, God's preordination is, if possible, even more fatal to free ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"According to the doctrinal decisions of general and particular synods, God infallibly foresees and immutably preordains from eternity all future events (cf. ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"According to the doctrinal decisions of general and particular synods, God infallibly foresees and immutably preordains from eternity all future events (cf. ..."

4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... and makes the human race cheat itself unanimously and delightfully by the illusion that he preordains; while as an obscure Fate, he sits invisible, ..."

5. Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century by Henry Osborn Taylor (1920)
"that He foreknows, preordains and accomplishes all through His unchanging and eternal and unfailing will. This principle like a lightning stroke, ..."

6. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1867)
"The nearness of our iron mountains to coal of a suitable quality and quantity to smelt them, preordains this city to be the great central machine shop of ..."

7. Works by William Harvey (1847)
"... changes the constitution of the fluids of the egg, and preordains everything for the construction of the future chick before there is even a vestige of ..."

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