Definition of "preordination" [pre•or•di•na•tion]

• The state or process of things being preordained. (noun)
• Before ordination. (adjective)

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• "But the shooting-brake conformation is so utterly right that it takes on the aspect of preordination."
• "Pious spirits who passed their days in raptures of futurity, made little more of this world, than the world that was before it, while they lay obscure in the chaos of preordination, and night of their forebeings."
• "But it is still unclear if the appeal to divine incomprehensibility is supposed to help us to accept that God preordains everything and that there is a freedom that conflicts with divine preordination, or if it is supposed to help us to accept that there is a kind of freedom that is consistent with divine preordination but is still freedom."