foreordain

[ fawr-awr-deyn, fohr- ]

/ ˌfɔr ɔrˈdeɪn, ˌfoʊr- /

to ordain or appoint beforehand.

to predestine; predetermine.

Origin of foreordain

First recorded in 1400–50, foreordain is from the late Middle English word forordeinen. See fore-, ordain

fore·or·dain·ment, noun

A plumber was to him the devil, and I have no doubt that, in his scheme, plumbers were foreordained to do him mischief.

Summer in a Garden, and Calvin, A Study Of Character |Charles Dudley Warner
Without it he felt himself to be a creature predestined and foreordained to disaster.

From Place to Place |Irvin S. Cobb
The victory over death thus achieved by the foreordained Redeemer of the race was positively and abundantly foretold.

The Vitality of Mormonism--Brief Essays |James E. Talmage
As the extinction of a nation is foreordained in its very inception, so the fall of America is possibly already predestined.

The Champagne Standard |Mrs. John Lane

Because, says the General, thoughtfully, "a ride on an American railway train of cars is foreordained car-nage."

The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 |Robert H. Newell

foreordain

/ (ˌfɔːrɔːˈdeɪn) /

(tr; may take a clause as object) to determine (events, results, etc) in the future

foreordainment or foreordination (ˌfɔːrɔːdɪˈneɪʃən), noun