Definition of "preordain" []

• To appoint, decree, or ordain in advance; foreordain. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Specifically, did the fact that I played left wing in high school soccer -- and here my explicit egotism requires me to point out that I did not play with two left feet -- preordain my placement on the left wing of the political spectrum?"
• "Of course, these parallels do not preordain a second Depression."
• "Nobody tried to preordain in my mind what place the death of animals should have in the consciousness."