Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.