† preˈdestinary, a. Obs. rare.
[f. predestine + -ary1 A.]
= predestinarian a.
| 1599 Sandys Europæ Spec. (1629) 172 To professe openly they will returne to the Papacie, rather than ever admit that Sacramentarie and Predestionarie [sic] pestilence. a 1662 Heylin Hist. Presbyter. (1670) 21 The Zwinglian Gospellers..began to scatter their predestinary Doctrines in the Reign of King Edward. |