Verb
foredetermine (foredetermines, present participle foredetermining; past and past participle foredetermined)
- (transitive) To determine beforehand; predetermine.
- 1847, The National preacher: Volumes 21-22:
- The relations of life act as bribes to bias his judgment and foredetermine his verdict.
- 1864, Bibliotheca sacra and theological review: Volume 21:
- The answer made to this is, in effect, that although the will is in such a sense a power of contrary choice or self- determination that God cannot foredetermine its action without restraint upon this power and destruction of its freedom [...]
- 2004, Paul Carus, Martin Verhoven, The gospel of Buddha according to old records:
- But more to the point was Peirce's observation that Carus's reconciliation of religion and science constituted "an endeavor to reach a foredetermined conclusion."
- 2007, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Horatius Bonar, God's Will, Man's Will and Free Will:
- If God plans, foredetermines and predestinates each and every deed of a man's life, powerfully controlling all circumstances, all persons, even all forces of whatever variety and magnitude that affects his life, can that man be truly free?
- 1847, The National preacher: Volumes 21-22:
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002
![Offline English dictionary](https://thesaurus.altervista.org/images/banner_en_dictionary.png)