0 (especially of a power thought to be greater than ordinary people) to decide or fix what will happen in a way that cannot be changed or controlled: --
The danger is that, because people exercise a choice, they start to preordain in which direction a school will be pushed.
The specific terms and the details of the consecutive deals would have been difficult to predict, but the goals of the political actors were preordained by their ethno-linguistic background.
While all these aspects might contribute to a greater uptake of agent technology, one thing that must not be standardized or preordained is the internal design of agents.
Although actuaries ultimately emerged stronger than ever from their mid-century crisis of commercial fortune and professional identity, the process of recovery was neither preordained nor easy.
In sum, the importance of party for voting patterns on them notwithstanding, the outcome of free votes is not preordained by the partisan distribution of parliamentary seats.
This intuition is built into the human mechanism, preordaining a discomfort that ranges from uneasiness to pure existential dread whenever we ponder the possibility that conscious will is an illusion.
Under such circumstances his fate was preordained.
It was not inevitable or preordained.
