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To decree beforehand; to foreordain; to predestinate. Young.

Predestination. [Obs.]

Capable of being determined beforehand. Coleridge.

Determined beforehand; as, the predeterminate counsel of God.

The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will. Hammond.

To determine (something) beforehand. Sir M. Hale.

The relationship between a person and his sponsors. [Obs.]

A senior; an elder; a predecessor. [Obs.] Junius and Andronicus . . . in Christianity . . . were his ancients. Hooker.

One who goes before; a predecessor. The successor seldom prosecuting his antecessor's devices. Sir E. Sandys.

Purpose for which anything is destined; predetermined end, object, or use; ultimate design.

That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom. Thither he Will come to know his destiny. Shak. No man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. Bryant.

From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line. A ring the county wears, That downward hath descended in his house, From son to son, some four or five descents. Shak.

An aged person; one who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor. Carry your head as your elders have done. L'Estrange.

Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism. There is a remnant according to the election of grace. Rom. xi. 5.

Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death. The great, th'important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome. Addison. Our wills and fates do so contrary run That our devices still are overthrown. Shak. The whizzing arrow sings, And bears thy f…

Previous contrivance or determination; predetermination. He makes this difference to arise from the forecast and predetermination of the gods themselves. Addison.

To doom beforehand; to predestinate. Thou art foredomed to view the Stygian state. Dryden.

. Mrs. Browning. Foregone conclusion, one which has preceded argument or examination; one predetermined.

One who goes before another; a predecessor; hence, an ancestor' a progenitor.

To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine. Hooker.