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:
As there were also no legal impediments to their acquistion of property, an application to one of the curiae was almost preordained.
If our fate is preordained (in our genes or in the stars), then implicitly it cannot be undone.
Such a division had been preordained in the creation of man.
But these are just random weights, not discrete preordained parameter settings.
The eight-dollar level is in no way preordained.
The outcome does not appear to have been preordained, and it is possible that their opinions played a role in resolving the situation.
They may be intentional, unintentional, or structural and are not deterministic, random, or teleologically preordained.
It was not inevitable or preordained.
