[with obj.](一般作 be predestined)(of God) destine (someone) for a particular fate or purpose (上帝)预定(某人)命运 Calvinists believed that every person was predestined by God to go to heaven or to hell. 卡尔文教派认为上帝已为每个人预定了上天堂还是下地狱的命运。 ■determine (an outcome or course of events) in advance by divine will or fate 命定,注定 she was certain that fate was with her and everything was predestined. 她确信命运与她同在,一切都是命中注定的。 [as adj. predestined]our predestined end. 我们命中注定的结果。
语源
late Middle English: from Old French predestiner or ecclesiastical Latin praedestinare (see predestinate)