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