predestine
/priːˈdestɪn/verb
with obj.(一般作be predestined)
1- (of God) destine (someone) for a particular fate or purpose（上帝）预定（某人）的命运：
Calvinists believed that every person was predestined by God to go to heaven or to hell.
卡尔文教派认为上帝已为每个人预定了上天堂还是下地狱的命运。
1.1
- determine (an outcome or course of events) in advance by divine will or fate命定, 注定（结果, 事件经过）：
she was certain that fate was with her and everything was predestined
她确信命运与她同在, 一切都是命中注定的
as adj. predestined our predestined end.我们命中注定的结局。
词源
late Middle English: from Old French predestiner or ecclesiastical Latin praedestinare （see PREDESTINATE）.