Word Meanings - PREDESTINATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Determining beforehand; predestinating. Coleridge.

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• DETERMINE
  1. To come to an end; to end; to terminate. He who has vented a pernicious doctrine or published an ill book must know that his life determine not together. South. Estates may determine on future contingencies. Blackstone. 2. To come to a decision;
• PREDESTINATOR
  1. One who predestinates, or foreordains. 2. One who holds to the doctrine of predestination; a predestinarian. Cowley.
• DETERMINER
  One who, or that which, determines or decides.
• DETERMINIST
  One who believes in determinism. Also adj.; as, determinist theories.
• DETERMINISM
  The doctrine that the will is not free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives. Its superior suitability to produce courage, as contrasted with scientific physical determinism, is obvious. F. P. Cobbe.
• DETERMINATIVE
  Having power to determine; limiting; shaping; directing; conclusive. Incidents . . . determinative of their course. I. Taylor. Determinative tables , tables presenting the specific character of minerals, plants, etc., to assist in determining the
• DETERMINATELY
  1. In a determinate manner; definitely; ascertainably. The principles of religion are already either determinately true or false, before you think of them. Tillotson. 2. Resolutely; unchangeably. Being determinately . . . bent to marry. Sir P.
• DETERMINABILITY
  The quality of being determinable; determinableness. Coleridge.
• PREDESTINATIVE
  Determining beforehand; predestinating. Coleridge.
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• DETERMINATOR
  One who determines. Sir T. Browne.
• DETERMINATE
  1. Having defined limits; not uncertain or arbitrary; fixed; established; definite. Quantity of words and a determinate number of feet. Dryden. 2. Conclusive; decisive; positive. The determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. Acts ii. 23. 3.
• DETERMINATENESS
  State of being determinate.
• DETERMINEDLY
  In a determined manner; with determination.
• DETERMINABLENESS
  Capability of being determined; determinability.
• DETERMINACY
  Determinateness.
• DETERMINATION
  A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part; as, a determination of blood to the head. (more info) 1. The act of determining, or the state of being determined. 2. Bringing to an end; termination; limit. A speedy determination of that
• DETERMINANT
  Serving to determine or limit; determinative.
• DETERMINED
  Decided; resolute. "Adetermined foe."" Sparks.
• DETERMINABLE
  Capable of being determined, definitely ascertained, decided upon, or brought to a conclusion. Not wholly determinable from the grammatical use of the words. South.
• INDETERMINABLE
  Not determinable; impossible to be determined; not to be definitely known, ascertained, defined, or limited. -- In`de*ter"mi*na*bly, adv.
• SELF-DETERMINATION
  Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.
• UNDETERMINABLE
  Not determinable; indeterminable. Locke.
• PREDETERMINATION
  The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will. Hammond.
• INDETERMINATE
  Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise; as, an indeterminate number of years. Paley. Indeterminate analysis , that branch of analysis which has for its object the solution of indeterminate problems. -- Indeterminate
• UNDETERMINATION
  Indetermination. Sir M. Hale.
• INDETERMINED
  Undetermined.
• PREDETERMINABLE
  Capable of being determined beforehand. Coleridge.
• FOREDETERMINE
  To determine or decree beforehand. Bp. Hopkins.