predetermined, ppl. a.
(priːdɪˈtɜːmɪnd)
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. Determined beforehand; settled, decided, or decreed beforehand.
| 1660 tr. Amyraldus' Treat. conc. Relig. iii. ix. 496 Christ was born at the predetermin'd time. 1819 G. S. Faber Dispensations (1823) I. 94 How shall we account..for his having beheld from afar..the predetermined day of the yet future Deliverer? 1873 Hamerton Intell. Life x. v. (1875) 394 A predetermined quantity of little things. |
2. Resolved beforehand (to do something).
| 1768 Sterne Sent. Journ. (1775) I. 6, I was predetermined not to give him a single sous. 1772 Junius Lett. Pref. (1820) 14 No reasonable man would be so eager to possess himself of the invidious power..if he were not pre-determined to make use of it. 1872 W. Minto Eng. Prose Lit. ii. viii. 527 An audience predetermined not to be convinced. |