Definition of "predestined" [predestined]

• Simple past tense and past participle of predestine. (verb)

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• "In such a godforsaken place we partake the journey of one man and his son on “the road” predestined from the beginning to end with a disaster."
• "The Presbyterians of his own time did still espouse predestination as a doctrine-but, a bit more flexible in attitude, tended to soft-pedal the notion of predestined damnation, and not to think too much on the idea that every detail of life was so predestined."
• "They were closer than the outer ring, which kept a uniform girth around the prairie, but somehow they looked very peculiar and foreboding, and I got one of those sobering feelings which I like to call predestined deja vu."