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Predetermine   Listen
verb
Predetermine  v. t.  (past & past part. predetermined; pres. part. predermining)  
1.
To determine (something) beforehand.
2.
To doom by previous decree; to foredoom.





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"Predetermine" Quotes from Famous Books



... to condemn solemnly and consign to evil or destruction or to predetermine to an evil destiny; an inferior race in presence of a superior is doomed to subjugation or extinction. Compare ...
— English Synonyms and Antonyms - With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions • James Champlin Fernald
... defect, or to intellectual deficiency, or to outbursts of positive insanity." And the same author says elsewhere: "The anti-social, egoistic development of the individual predisposes to, if it does not predetermine, the mental degeneracy of his progeny; he, alien from his kind by excessive egoisms, determines an alienation of mind in them. If I may trust in that matter my observations, I know no one who is more likely to breed insanity in ...
— Practical Ethics • William DeWitt Hyde


Words linked to "Predetermine" :   shape, regulate, weight, foreordain, bias, prejudice, mold, determine, slant, predestine, prepossess, predestinate, influence, preordain, angle, predetermination


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