predestinate
Decree before birth
Predestinate means to determine or decree in advance, especially by divine will.
In theological contexts, it refers to God's foreordaining of souls to salvation or damnation: Calvin taught that God predestinates the elect.
The word functions as both verb and adjective, though predestine and predestined are more common in contemporary usage.
Predict through revelation
- decreeAuthoritative legal command
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- presageIndicate beforehand
- foreshadowIndicate future events
foretell · prognosticate · foreknow · preordain · foreordain · appoint · designate · mark
Preordained future outcome
- fortuneWealth or destiny
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- lotLarge amount or portion
- starsLuminous celestial bodies
omen · prophecy · fated · fateful · inevitability · foreordained · written · sealed
Supreme spiritual authority
- deityWorshipped supernatural being
- providenceDivine protective care
- omniscienceUnlimited knowledge state
- creatorOne who produces something
almighty · divine will · heavenly · transcendent · sacred · holy · eternal · spiritual
Organized public voting
- CalvinismPredestinarian Protestant theology
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- reprobationStern moral disapproval
providence · decree · salvation · foreordination · justification · sanctification · atonement · covenant
prophesy
Predict through revelation
foreshadow · foretell · prognosticate · foreknow · preordain · foreordain · appoint · designate · mark · assign
kismet
Preordained future outcome
stars · omen · prophecy · fated · fateful · inevitability · foreordained · written · sealed · destined
God
Supreme spiritual authority
- deityWorshipped supernatural being
- providenceDivine protective care
- omniscienceUnlimited knowledge state
creator · almighty · divine will · heavenly · transcendent · sacred · holy · eternal · spiritual · supernatural
election
Organized public voting
- CalvinismPredestinarian Protestant theology
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
reprobation · providence · decree · salvation · foreordination · justification · sanctification · atonement · covenant · theodicy
predestinateself-determined
Decided by oneself
free will · autonomous · voluntary · self-willed · elective
predestinateuncertain
Not firmly known
contingent · unforeseen · open-ended · unfated · unordained