0 past simple and past participle of preordain
1 (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.
It shared with the poet a feeling for organism and for the working out of preordained pattern.
The human brain, in its structure and its function, was but the climax of this veiled and preordained scheme.
The five goal areas are not intended to be viewed as separate entities, nor are they meant to be emphasized in a preordained sequence.
When someone dies, most, if not all, societies will mark the end of life with a preordained ritual of greater or lesser formality.
