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: --
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.
Under such circumstances his fate was preordained.
It was not inevitable or preordained.
People had come to live according to time-discipline, eating and sleeping on a preordained schedule dictated by the workplace.
They may be intentional, unintentional, or structural and are not deterministic, random, or teleologically preordained.
The outcome does not appear to have been preordained, and it is possible that their opinions played a role in resolving the situation.
The eight-dollar level is in no way preordained.
When someone dies, most, if not all, societies will mark the end of life with a preordained ritual of greater or lesser formality.
