predestinate

PREDESTINATE

praefinire praestituere aliquid; in theological sense also praedestinare (ecclesiastical technical term).

predestinate: theol. term, praedestĭno, 1: Vulg. Rom. viii. 29, etc.: Corp. Confess. (A more class. expr. would be praefinio, 4; cf. Gr. προορίζω.)