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

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

For he who knowingly makes a thing and places it in circumstances the operation of which on that thing he is perfectly acquainted with, does predestine that thing to whatever fate may befall it.

From Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Huxley, Thomas H.

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

There were no bits of cardboard with the names of stations printed on them to predestine our way; no baggage checks to consign our belongings to fixed destinations.

From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Hutchins, Frank W.