Verb (used with object), : He seemed predestined for the ministry. From Dictionary.com.
In such a godforsaken place we partake the journey of one man and his son on “the road” predestined from the beginning to end with a disaster. From Wordnik.com. [Cormac McCarthy - The Road (Book Review)] Reference
"predestined" -- all the life of the globe and all the starry hosts of heaven are working out in boundless space and in endless time "their predestined course of evolution.". From Wordnik.com. [Time and Change] Reference
One moment, He boasts that He is unconcerned and immutable, and that His people are "predestined" to win it all. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Asghar: A Holy World War, NBA-Style] Reference
It also includes a quote from President Obama stating his belief that it is not "predestined" that America and China ever become adversaries. From Wordnik.com. [Navy Times - News] Reference
It is a sort of predestined spiritual relationship. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
The predestined child desired to consecrate herself to. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation] Reference
Is there an electric chain binding hearts predestined to love?. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
In numerous interviews, Nevelson described her predestined path. From Wordnik.com. [Artist's Slice of City Is Restored to Life] Reference
Him and that His predestined ones should be saved and His Majesty and Your. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
That, too, was fated and necessary, and a part of the predestined programme. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
He seems to have been a predestined air-sailor, for he made his first ascension. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
'My lord,' said the prisoner, 'it's a bad job; but I was predestined to do it!'. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
If Amos grumbled about the weather, Marthy'd say, 'Ain't everything predestined?. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference
These correlations seem to suggest that much of obesity is genetically predestined. From Wordnik.com. [Double Trouble] Reference
Belief in the idea of progress does not mean that this earth is predestined to drift into. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Progress] Reference
Perhaps it was only a case of predestined deja vu, or maybe it was something less tangible. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolutions of Time] Reference
Fénelon was now, in all eyes, the predestined prime minister of a new reign about to commence. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
"When he is predestined to it, one could not preserve him even by putting oneself in his place.". From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
So my fears were not as unfounded as I had thought, was my predestined deja vu, then, real as well?. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolutions of Time] Reference
We live our time in our predestined day, learning and knowing, like grown-up children, what we may. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Steel and Electricity] Reference
What most separates the Tea Party from the GOP is their lack of predestined allegiance to any party. From Wordnik.com. [What Is The Tea Party? Your Guide To The Movement] Reference
Whereupon his lordship replied: 'Ay! ay! my cannie laddie! an' I was predestined to hang ye for't. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
"But I'm afraid your hopes of finding that the idol has feet of clay are predestined to disappointment.". From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Things is predestined to come to us, honey, but we're jest as free as air to make what we please out of 'em. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference
I regarded Merilee with a kind of wavering shyness, with the predestined certainty that she would not like me. From Wordnik.com. [Glorious, Weird, and with a French Accent] Reference
In glancing triumphantly around, his eye fell on a certain benign smile then flitting over the face of his predestined. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
A thousand times better regard himself as ill, disorganized, deluded, than as the predestined victim of such warnings!. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
Dickens in New York, on his first visit to America, Washington Irving was obviously the predestined presiding officer. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
He found them wherever he went (that, he didn't even seem to know, was where he was essentially predestined to End up). From Wordnik.com. [Easter] Reference
But her sons, as they attained to the fatal age of twelve years, seemed predestined to disappoint their mother's hopes. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
Nature from the first clearly intended that Alfriston men should be too much for the excise; smuggling was predestined. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
As a revolutioniser of his species he was predestined to failure, for years would certainly show him the error of his ways. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference
It had become a second nature with him to entertain the crowd, while the crowd came to look upon him as their predestined entertainer. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
This meant that the commission was predestined to propose cutting future benefits sharply and proposing massive new borrowings to fund private accounts. From Wordnik.com. [THE FIX IS IN] Reference
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