predetermined

predetermine (ˌpriːdɪˈtɜːmɪn)

—vb
1.	to determine beforehand
2.	to influence or incline towards an opinion beforehand; bias

predetermi'nation

—n

prede'terminative

—*adj*

prede'terminer

—n

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source

Etymonline

Word Origin & History

predetermine

1625, originally theological, from L.L. prædeterminare (Augustine), from præ + determinare (see determine).

Example sentences

Predetermined measurements can turn out to be unrealistic.

During this time, the staples stick to predetermined parts of the scaffold and fold it into the right shape.

So the show's white-hotness was all but predetermined.

Remember, though, that the airlines charge extra if your bag is over a

predetermined weight.

Upgrade to Ad-free Premium Membership!

call command-driven controlled-release depth charge destined destiny

Matching Quote

"Historically speaking, the most obvious and most decisive distinction between the American and the French Revolutions was that the historical inheritance of the American Revolution was "limited monarchy" and that of the French Revolution an absolutism which apparently reached far back into the first centuries of our era and the last centuries of the Roman Empire. Nothing, indeed, seems more natural than that a revolution should be predetermined by the type of government it overthrows; nothing, therefore, appears more plausible than to explain the new absolute, the absolute revolution, by the absolute monarchy which preceded it, and to conclude that the more absolute the ruler, the more absolute the revolution will be which replaces him."

-Hannah Arendt