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foreordained

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fore·or·dain  (fôrôr-dn, fr-)
tr.v. fore·or·dained, fore·or·dain·ing, fore·or·dains
To determine or appoint beforehand; predestine.
foreor·dainment, fore·ordi·nation (-ôrdn-shn) n.
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Adj.1.foreordained - established or prearranged unalterably; "his place in history was foreordained"; "a sense of predestinate inevitability about it"; "it seemed predestined since the beginning of the world"
predestinate, predestined
sure, certain - certain to occur; destined or inevitable; "he was certain to fail"; "his fate is certain"; "In this life nothing is certain but death and taxes"- Benjamin Franklin; "he faced certain death"; "sudden but sure regret"; "he is sure to win"
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Coles says it seems as if it were foreordained that they should not rest in a grave, but should lie beneath the waves until the day when the sea gives up its dead.
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I hold the belief that all love that is true is foreordained and consecrated in heaven.
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" murmured the stranger; "thy foal was foreordained to become a prey to ravenous beasts
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