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

V. impend; hang over, lie over; threaten, loom, await, come on, approach, stare one in the face; foreordain, preordain; predestine, doom, have in store for.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

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

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

"And what dost thou predestine to me?" inquired Vatinius.

From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah