Definition of "predetermination" [pre•de•ter•mi•na•tion]

• The act of determining beforehand. (noun)
• Something that has been decided in advance. (noun)

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• "It is also impossible that the result truly exists already at the time of the cause, as in the idea of predetermination, or that the result exists somehow inherently in the cause or in the aftermath of the cause, but in some unmanifest manner, and is just waiting for the right circumstances to pop out and appear."
• "I've only ever watched it here with theferrett and zoethe , but what strikes me about it is the credit sequence, the faded future photographs of people we watch living in the present, a kind of predetermination in sun damage."
• "His book "De causâ Dei contra Pelagium" gave rise in Paris to disputes on Augustinian "predetermination," a word which, it had been thought, was invented by Banes in the sixteenth century."