KJV Dictionary Definition: predestinate

predestinate

PREDES'TINATE, a. Predestinated; foreordained.

PREDES'TINATE, v.t. L. proedestino; proe and destino, to appoint.

To predetermine or foreordain; to appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose.

Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son. Rom.8.

Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself. Eph.1.

predestinated

PREDES'TINATED, pp. Predetermined; foreordained; decreed.

predestinating

PREDES'TINATING, ppr. Foreordaining; decreeing; appointing beforehand by an unchangeable purpose.

1. Holding predestination.

And pricks up his predestinating ears.

predestination

PREDESTINA'TION, n. The act of decreeing or foreordaining events; the decree of God by which he hath, from eternity, unchangeably appointed or determined whatever comes to pass. It is used particularly in theology to denote the preordination of men to everlasting happiness or misery.

Predestination is a part of the unchangeable plan of the divine government; or in other words, the unchangeable purpose of an unchangeable God.

predestinator

PREDES'TINATOR, n. Properly, one that foreordains.

1. One that holds to predestination.

predestine

PREDES'TINE, v.t. To decree beforehand; to foreordain.

And bid predestined empires rise and fall.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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