preappointed

The real thing that I address that terminology to is the notion that somehow God has preappointed or predesigned these kind of things, as some arbitrary action or some punishment for reasons we don't understand.

CNN Transcript Aug 14, 2002 2002

This could be very tough to guarantee, from the point of view of MAV engineering systems alone, putting aside the possibility of bad weather on the preappointed take-off date.

The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996

This could be very tough to guarantee, from the point of view of MAV engineering systems alone, putting aside the possibility of bad weather on the preappointed take-off date.

The Case for Mars Robert Zubrin 1996

By daybreak the marchers, under the leadership of the task force, were moving to a preappointed open ground, where they merged with other demonstrators.

THE SHARPEVILLE MASSACRE (1) 1976

You have, if I may so speak, been turning all your front-head into back-head, giving to your cerebral powers the characters of preappointed, automatic action, which are proper to the cerebellum.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various

What a mockery then seems your distinction between determination and compulsion, between passivity and an 'activity' every minutest feature of which is preappointed, both as to its whatness and as to its thatness, by what went before?

Familiar Letters of William James I 1920

In the order of time, however, the Divine decree is carried out in the reverse order, the predestined receiving first the graces preappointed to them, and lastly the glory of heaven as the reward of their good works.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

The only mode apparent to me, in which difficulties may be thrown in the way of crime committed through this means, without any infringement, worth taking into account, upon the liberty of those who desire the poisonous substance for other purposes, consists in providing what, in the apt language of Bentham, is called “preappointed evidence.

Chapter V. Applications 1909

The birth of her son was fatal to her, and the most touching and pathetic of all the many shapes of death was the fit beginning of a life preappointed to nearly unlifting cloud.

Rousseau Morley, John 1905

The occasion of the Savior's advent was preappointed; and the time thereof was specifically revealed through authorized prophets on each of the hemispheres.

Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern James Edward Talmage 1897