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third-person singular simple present preordains, present participle preordaining, simple past and past participle preordained
(transitive) To determine the fate of something in advance. quotations examples
A child! If here the heart turns sick with rathTo see a little one from birth defiled,Or lame or blind, as preordained to languishThrough youthless life
1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night