predestinate

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From Middle English predestinate, from Latin praedestinātus, past participle of praedestināre. By surface analysis, pre- + destinate.

For if Higgins was a predestinate old bachelor, she was most certainly not a predestinate old maid. — Pygmalion, Bernard Shaw
Now this criminal of ours is predestinate to crime also; he, too, have child-brain, and it is of the child to do what he have done. — Dracula, Bram Stoker

predestine, foreordain

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