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

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)

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.

“But to whom dost thou predestine the honor, holiness?”

From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Glovatski, Alexander

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