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.