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

"But to whom dost Thou predestine the honor, holiness?"

From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Curtin, Jeremiah

Tell what the following words mean: prefix, predict, prepare, prejudge, prescribe, predestine, precaution, precursor, prefigure, prearrange.

From De La Salle Fifth Reader by Christian Brothers

The face is somewhat like that young prisoner's; the same mystical, prescient melancholy in the wide eyes, as if she realized she was predestine to work woe.

From At the Mercy of Tiberius by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

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