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

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.

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

Therefore now He is able not to predestine him.

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.