predestine

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Genes do not predestine one individual to complete fewer years of schooling than another or one individual to score higher on a cognitive performance test than another.

From Scientific American • May 26, 2022

Not so as to the motive that induced God to predestine certain individuals to the exclusion of others.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur

I answer that, It is fitting that God should predestine men.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

“But to whom dost thou predestine the honor, holiness?”

From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Glovatski, Alexander

Tell what the following words mean: prefix, predict, prepare, prejudge, prescribe, predestine, precaution, precursor, prefigure, prearrange.

From De La Salle Fifth Reader by Christian Brothers