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Predestinate


Definition:

  • (a.) Predestinated; foreordained; fated.
  • (v. t.) To predetermine or foreordain; to appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose or decree; to preelect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When under the present experimental conditions bleeding takes place into this cellular tissue, it splits without any particular, predestined cleavage plane, although most often close to the fibrous matter of the dura.
  • (2) Monodisperse suspensions of epidermal cells appear to "implant" and establish small epidermal plaques in the uterus only at sites predestined to accept conceptuses.
  • (3) This procedure has been applied with prophylactic and therapeutic benefits in mice predestined to develop leukemia and reticulum cell sarcoma.
  • (4) Are brain, brawn, sin and virtue preordained; the elect predestined for high things?
  • (5) The pathological family-structure seems to reinforce the situation and the existence of inadequate behavior of patients with anorexia nervosa, who are often introverted and predestinated for conditioning.
  • (6) Phospholipase D (PLD), an enzyme predestined for the preparation of new phospholipids, was isolated from cabbage and purified in a highly efficient way by using a combination of hydrophobic chromatography and a specific calcium effect.
  • (7) When Chinese premier Li Keqiang meets the Queen this week the protocol will doubtless be spotless, while his trade and investment mission is also predestined to be a success.
  • (8) Predestination of fiber tracts and alternative proposals to the pedestination theory are considered to explain QRS aberration due to exclusive His bundle lesions.
  • (9) Although platelets are primarily predestined to exhibit this function, certain pathological conditions can lead to exposure of a procoagulant surface in other cells as well.
  • (10) In order to manifest such feelings through concrete actions,” he said, “we have engraved in our hearts the histories of suffering of the people in Asia as our neighbours.” But he added: “We must not let our children, grandchildren, and even further generations to come, who have nothing to do with the war, be predestined to apologise.
  • (11) High sensitivity range of iodide concentration and simplicity of performance predestinate described method for epidemiological studies in iodide deficiency regions.
  • (12) Treading in the footsteps of the late Samuel Huntington, these vulgar Huntingtonians suggest that Ukraine's eastern, Orthodox cultural legacy somehow condemns it to democratic failure, while Poland's western, Catholic heritage predestined it for democratic success.
  • (13) The data illustrate that: (i) primary stimulated cells predestined to produce IgA anti-LPS antibodies home mainly to the intestine, while cells predestined to anti-fimbrial antibody production have a greater tendency to populate the mammary gland; (ii) after repeated antigen stimulation and maturation of the immune response the cells are directed from the mammary gland to the intestine.
  • (14) By demolishing the idea that Europe is predestined for “ever closer union”, Grexit would actually make it easier for the prime minister to sell continued membership to the British.
  • (15) There is no predestined level for the goal of therapy.
  • (16) After studying Vogt's fate maps, Spemann wrote (in 1938) that "the question which at once calls for an answer is whether this pattern of presumptive primordia in the beginning gastrula is the expression of a real difference of these parts, whether they are already more or less predestined or 'determined' for their ultimate fate, or whether they are still indifferent and will not receive their determination until a later time."
  • (17) The chancellor, Angela Merkel, has argued that her birthplace, a wealthy port city and a “beacon of free trade”, was “almost predestined” to host the gathering of the world’s leading industrialised and developing economies.
  • (18) The large percentage of histopathological findings confirms, that the appendix--being a rudimentary lymphatic organ--appears to be predestined for inflammatory changes.
  • (19) On the other hand this modern noninvasive, picture yielding and ever reproducible method is predestined for objective confirmation of the late complaint after maxillary sinus operation.
  • (20) The most important advantage of wound-immunization is the speed and ease with which it can be administered, a fact which predestines it for vaccination in emergency cases.

Preordain


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To ordain or appoint beforehand: to predetermine: to foreordain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
  • (2) Turing to hypnosis, it is made clear that a trance is the execution of a momentarily proposed programme; it is not the result of a generalised mechanical action, but is preordained and geared to various situations.
  • (3) "It wasn't preordained that Iran would opt for battle.
  • (4) The left’s weakness has been its belief that there is an inexorable direction to history, that triumph is preordained All of which means that the party’s conference in Brighton in September must be a rigorous campaign launch rather than a carnival of celebration.
  • (5) Are brain, brawn, sin and virtue preordained; the elect predestined for high things?
  • (6) Totally implantable programmable systems allow preordained complex continuous infusion of drugs.
  • (7) It is an entirely one-sided argument designed to support a preordained outcome.” A spokeswoman for Vestager said the commission had received the letter and that its investigation was continuing.
  • (8) Labour politicians were reluctant to take on the media mogul, partly because of the fear of losing the support of his newspapers but also because, in the words of one former minister, "it wasn't preordained that Sky would succeed – so why should they be punished?"
  • (9) Murray dismissed Ruben Bemelmens , then his brother, Jamie, overcame the jitters to partner him to victory in the doubles – and, as was almost preordained, it all came down to Andy.
  • (10) "There are many things going for us – but nothing is preordained."
  • (11) Not because the change they won was preordained; not because their victory was complete; but because they proved that non-violent change is possible; that love and hope can conquer hate.
  • (12) White says the Dead Weather's path was never preordained: "We might have made a country and western album for all we knew how it was going to turn out," he says, albeit a little unconvincingly.
  • (13) Much like his swearing-in on 20 January 2009, the schedule on Obama’s final day in office is largely preordained by a number of traditions.
  • (14) Yet once in a while, bad policies – even ones where the outcome seems preordained – can be averted.
  • (15) As a trustee for Rupert Murdoch’s two young daughters, your own silence was preordained, but nonetheless disappointing.
  • (16) Of course, there is no preordained guarantee that children with brain tumors will achieve the same therapeutic successes that children with Wilms' tumor have achieved.
  • (17) History had fated Zimbabwe to a racial conflict, preordained a racially polarising fight for Mugabe.
  • (18) Policymakers who misuse genetics to argue that a child's fate is all-but preordained may stop investing in "no-hopers".
  • (19) It has always been the case that, because the economy is subject to unforeseen disturbances, the precise path for [the] Bank rate cannot be preordained,” he said.
  • (20) Reference examinations, or "gold standards," may be used in a manner preordaining an inferior result for the diagnostic method under evaluation.

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