Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PRE-DES'TI-NATE, a.

Predestinated; foreordained. – Burnet.

PRE-DES'TI-NATE, v.t. [It. predestinare; Fr. predestiner; L. prædestino; præ and destino, to appoint.]

To predetermine or foreordain; to appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose. Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son. – Rom. viii. Having predestinated us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself. – Eph. i.

PRE-DES'TI-NA-TED, pp.

Predetermined; foreordained; decreed.

PRE-DES'TI-NA-TING, ppr.

1. Foreordaining; decreeing; appointing beforehand by an unchangeable purpose.
2. Holding predestination. And pricks up his predestinating ears. – Dryden.

PRE-DES-TI-NA'TION, n.

The act of decreeing or foreordaining events; the decree of God by which he hath, from eternity, unchangeably appointed or determined whatever comes to pass. It is used particularly in theology to denote the preordination of men to everlasting happiness or misery. – Encyc. Predestination is a part of the unchangeable plan of the divine government; or in other words, the unchangeable purpose of an unchangeable God.

PRE-DES'TI-NA-TOR, n.

1. Properly, one that foreordains.
2. One that holds to predestination. – Cowley.

PRE-DES'TINE, v.t.

To decree beforehand; to foreordain. And bid predestined empires rise and fall. – Prior.

PRE-DES'TIN-ED, pp.

Decreed beforehand.

PRE-DES'TIN-ING, ppr.

Foreordaining.

PRE-DE-TERM'IN-ATE, a.

Determined beforehand; as, the predeterminate counsel of God. – Parkhurst.

PRE-DE-TERM-IN-A'TION, n. [See Predetermine.]

1. Previous determination; purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will. – Hammond.
2. Premotion; that concurrence of God which determines men in their actions. – Encyc.

PRE-DE-TERM'INE, v.t. [pre and determine.]

1. To determine beforehand; to settle in purpose or counsel. If God foresees events, he must have predetermined them. – Hale.
2. To doom by previous decree.

PRE-DE-TERM'IN-ED, pp.

Previously determined.

PRE-DE-TERM'IN-ING, ppr.

Determining beforehand.

PRE'DI-AL, a. [Sp. predial, from L. prædium, a farm or estate.]

1. Consisting of land or farms; real estate. – Ayliffe.
2. Attached to land or farms; as, predial slaves. – Encyc.
3. Growing or issuing from land; as, predial tithes.

PRED-I-CA-BIL'I-TY, n. [from predicable.]

The quality of being predicable, or capable of being affirmed of something, or attributed to something. – Reid.

PRED'I-CA-BLE, a. [L. prædicabilis, from prædico, to affirm; præ and dico, to say.]

That may be affirmed of something; that may be attributed to. Animal is predicable of man. Intelligence is not predicable of plants. More or less is not predicable of a circle or of a square. Whiteness is not predicable of time.

PRED'I-CA-BLE, n.

One of the five things which can be affirmed of any thing. Genus, species, difference, property, and accident are the five predicables. – Watts.

PRE-DIC'A-MENT, n. [Fr. from L. prædicamentum, from prædico, to affirm.]

1. In logic, a category; a series or order of all the predicates or attributes contained under any genus. The school philosophers distribute all the objects of our thoughts and ideas into genera or classes, which the Greeks call categories, and the Latins predicaments. Aristotle made ten categories, viz. substance, quantity, quality, relation, action, passion, time, place, situation and habit. – Encyc.
2. Class or kind described by any definite marks; hence, condition; particular situation or state. – Shak. We say, the country is in a singular predicament.

PRE-DIC-A-MENT'AL, a.

Pertaining to a predicament. – Hale.

PRED'I-CANT, n. [L. prædicans, prædico.]

One that affirms any thing.

PRED'I-CATE, a.

Predicated. – Marshall.

PRED'I-CATE, n.

In logic, that which, in a proposition, is affirmed or denied of the subject. In these propositions, “paper is white,” “ink is not white,” whiteness is the predicate affirmed of paper, and denied of ink. – Watts.

PRED'I-CATE, v.i.

To affirm; to comprise an affirmation. – Hale.

PRED'I-CATE, v.t. [L. prædico; præ and dico, to say.]

To affirm one thing of another; as, to predicate whiteness of snow. Reason may be predicated of man.