predestine

predestine
verb
  1. [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
  1. late Middle English: from Old French predestiner or ecclesiastical Latin praedestinare (see predestinate)
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