predetermine

The impulse given by each must be exactly estimated in order to predetermine the joint effect.

To conceive and desire the best is to attempt the ideal, is to predetermine the path that all succeeding generations shall tread.

Yet let no young woman predetermine that hers may not be an exception to the general law.

Robinson gives as its meaning, to set bounds before, to predetermine, spoken of the eternal decrees and counsels of God.

They then have a will and a way of their own; a free-will which their creator cannot predetermine and correct.