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   predestine

   /priːˈdɛst(ɪ)n/

   verb

   • 1. (of God) destine (someone) for a particular fate or purpose: "Calvinists believed that every person was predestined by God to go to heaven or to hell"
   • ▪ determine (an outcome or course of events) in advance by divine will or fate: "she was certain that fate was with her and everything was predestined"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French predestiner or ecclesiastical Latin praedestinare (see predestinate).

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