Definition of "predestining" []

• Present participle of predestine. (verb)

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• "Are we “predestining” our fetuses for their roles in life, exalted or humble, by the conditions we provide to them before birth?"
• "Moon 'is known as _Yue-lao_, and is reputed to hold in his hands the power of predestining the marriages of mortals -- so that marriages, if not, according to the native idea, exactly made in heaven, are made somewhere beyond the bounds of earth."
• "Parable of the Potter (as we have seen) it is for service as vessels that the clay is moulded; God is revealed not as predestining character or quality, but as shaping characters for ends for which under His hand they yield suitable qualities."