preordain

Etymology

pre- + ordain

verb

  1. (transitive) To determine the fate of something in advance.
    A child! If here the heart turns sick with rath To see a little one from birth defiled, Or lame or blind, as preordained to languish Through youthless life 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night

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