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

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

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

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

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

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.