predetermine

Etymology

From pre- + determine.

verb

  1. (transitive) To determine or decide in advance.
    God's Counsel doth not predetermine the Will to any evil 1688, Matthew Hale, A Discourse of the Knowledge of God and of Ourselves
  2. (transitive) To doom by previous decree; to foredoom.

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