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Predetermine   /prˌidɪtˈərmən/  /prˌiditˈərmən/   Listen
verb
Predetermine  v. t.  (past & past part. predetermined; pres. part. predermining)  
1.
To determine (something) beforehand.
2.
To doom by previous decree; to foredoom.



Predetermine  v. i.  To determine beforehand.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Predetermine" Quotes from Famous Books



... mental degeneracy in the offspring, either to moral defect, or to intellectual deficiency, or to outbursts of positive insanity." And the same author says elsewhere: "The anti-social, egoistic development of the individual predisposes to, if it does not predetermine, the mental degeneracy of his progeny; he, alien from his kind by excessive egoisms, determines an alienation of mind in them. If I may trust in that matter my observations, I know no one who is more likely to breed insanity in his offspring than the intensely narrow, self-sensitive, ...
— Practical Ethics • William DeWitt Hyde



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