Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Determining beforehand; foreordaining.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Determining beforehand; predestinating.
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- adjective
Determining beforehand ;predestinating .
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Examples
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By 'pre-existing' Aquinas means, 'occurring before the time when the effect of God's predestinative decree actually goes in to effect for that person'.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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By 'pre-existing' Aquinas means, 'occurring before the time when the effect of God's predestinative decree actually goes in to effect for that person'.
Prescient Election 2005
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The predestinative force of a free agent's own will in certain absolute acts, determinations, or elections, and in respect of which acts it is one either with the divine or the devilish will; and if the former, the conclusions to be drawn from God's goodness, faithfulness, and spiritual presence; these supply grounds of argument of a very different character, especially where the mind has been prepared by an insight into the error and hollowness of the antithesis between liberty and necessity.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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