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The step, or raised secondary part, of an altar; a superaltar; hence, in Italian painting, a band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming a border or frame at the foot of an altarpiece.

To design or purpose beforehand; to predetermine. Mitford.

A term used by Sir William Hamilton to define propositions having their quantity indicated by a verbal sign; as, all, none, etc.; -- contrasted with preindesignate, defining propositions of which the quantity is not so indicated.

Of or pertaining to predestination; as, the predestinarian controversy. Waterland.

The system or doctrine of the predestinarians.

Predestinarian. [Obs.] Heylin.

Predestinated; foreordained; fated. "A predestinate scratched face." Shak.

The act of predestinating. Predestination had overruled their will. Milton.

Determining beforehand; predestinating. [R.] Coleridge.

One who predestinates, or foreordains.

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 doom by previous decree; to foredoom.

Consisting of land or farms; landed; as, predial estate; that is, real estate. Ayliffe.

Preceding the diastole of the heart; as, a prediastolic friction sound.

The quality or state of being predicable, or affirmable of something, or attributed to something. Reid.

Capable of being predicated or affirmed of something; affirmable; attributable.