Predestinate
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Predestinate - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
PREDES'TINATE, a. Predestinated; foreordained.
PREDES'TINATE, v.t. [L. proedestino; proe and destino, to appoint.
To predetermine or foreordain; to appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose.
Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son. Rom 8.
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself. Eph 1.
Source of the article
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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