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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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11 words match “PREDETERMINE”

PREDETERMINE v. 3 definitions
To determine (something) beforehand. Sir M. Hale.
DESTINATION n.
Purpose for which anything is destined; predetermined end, object, or use; ultimate design.
DESTINY n.
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.
FATE n.
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…
FOREGO v.
. Mrs. Browning. Foregone conclusion, one which has preceded argument or examination; one predetermined.
FOREORDAIN v.
To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine. Hooker.
PREDESIGN v.
To design or purpose beforehand; to predetermine. Mitford.
PREDESTINATE v.
To predetermine or foreordain; to appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose or decree; to preëlect. Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son. Rom. viii. 29.
PREORDAIN v.
To ordain or appoint beforehand: to predetermine: to foreordain. Milton.
PRERESOLVE v.
To resolve beforehand; to predetermine. Sir E. Dering.
UNDERLOAD SWITCH n.
A switch which opens a circuit when the current falls below a certain predetermined value, used to protect certain types of motors from running at excessive speed upon decrease of load.