Definition of "foreordination" [fore•or•di•na•tion]

• Previous ordination or appointment; predetermination; predestination. (noun)

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• "His choice of the plan, or His making certain that the creation should be on this order, we call His foreordination or His predestination."
• "If a distinction be desired the word "foreordination" can perhaps better be used where the thing spoken of is an event in history or in nature, while"
• ""foreordination" are here mentioned, and the one as the cause of the other."