What's the difference between preordain and reordain?
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.
Reordain
Definition:
(v. t.) To ordain again, as when the first ordination is considered defective.