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Predestinative

Pre-des′ti-na-tive

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Adj.
Determining beforehand; predestinating.
[R.]
Coleridge.

Definition 2024


predestinative

predestinative

English

Adjective

predestinative (not comparable)

  1. Determining beforehand; predestinating.
    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
      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 []