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Word Meanings - PREDESTINATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Predestinated; foreordained; fated. "A predestinate scratched face." Shak.

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  • SCRATCH COAT
    The first coat in plastering; -- called also scratchwork. See Pricking-up.
  • FATHER-LASHER
    A European marine fish , allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
  • FATILOQUENT
    Prophetic; fatidical. Blount.
  • SCRATCHBACK
    A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons.
  • FATALNESS
    , . Quality of being fatal. Johnson.
  • FATHOMER
    One who fathoms.
  • FATALISTIC
    Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.
  • SCRATCHING
    With the action of scratching.
  • FATALITY
    1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South. 2. The state of being fatal;
  • FOREORDAIN
    To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine. Hooker.
  • FATIMITE; FATIMIDE
    Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n.
  • FAT-BRAINED
    Dull of apprehension.
  • FATHERLESSNESS
    The state of being without a father.
  • FATUITY
    Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity. Those many forms of popular fatuity. I Taylor.
  • FAT-WITTED
    Dull; stupid. Shak.
  • PREDESTINATOR
    1. One who predestinates, or foreordains. 2. One who holds to the doctrine of predestination; a predestinarian. Cowley.
  • FATA MORGANA
    A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily. (more info) looked upon as the work of a fairy of the
  • FATHERLAND
    One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
  • FATUOUS
    1. Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous. Glanvill. 2. Without reality; illusory, like the ignis fatuus. Thence fatuous fires and meteors take their birth. Danham.
  • FATTY
    Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance. Fatty acid , any one of the paraffin series of monocarbonic acids, as formic acid, acetic, etc.; -- so called because the higher members, as stearic and palmitic
  • BESCRATCH
    To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.
  • OVERFATIGUE
    Excessive fatigue.
  • INFATUATION
    The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates. The infatuations of the sensual and frivolous part of mankind are amazing; but the infatuations of the learned and sophistical are incomparably more so. I. Taylor.
  • INDEFATIGABLY
    Without weariness; without yielding to fatigue; persistently. Dryden.
  • GREAT-GRANDFATHER
    The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • MARROWFAT
    A rich but late variety of pea.
  • AFFATUATE
    To infatuate. Milton.
  • INDEFATIGABILITY
    The state of being indefatigable.

 

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