PREDECEASED
PREDECE'ASED, adjective Dead before.
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PREDECESSOR
PREDECES'SOR, noun [Latin proe and decedo, to depart.] A person who has preceded another in the same office. The king, the president, the judge, or the magistrate, follows the s...
PREDESIGN
PREDESIGN, verb transitive To design or purpose beforehand; to predetermine.
PREDESIGNED
PREDESIGNED, participle passive Purposed or determined previously.
PREDESIGNING
PREDESIGNING, participle present tense Designing previously.
PREDESTINARIAN
PREDESTINA'RIAN, noun [See Predestinate.]One that believes in the doctrine of predestination.
PREDESTINATE
PREDES'TINATE, adjective Predestinated; foreordained.PREDES'TINATE, verb transitive [Latin proedestino; proe and destino, to appoint.To predetermine or foreordain; to appoint or...
PREDESTINATED
PREDES'TINATED, participle passive Predetermined; foreordained; decreed.
PREDESTINATING
PREDES'TINATING, participle present tense Foreordaining; decreeing; appointing beforehand by an unchangeable purpose.1. Holding predestination.And pricks up his predestinating e...
PREDESTINATION
PREDESTINA'TION, noun The act of decreeing or foreordaining events; the decree of God by which he hath, from eternity, unchangeably appointed or determined whatever comes to pas...
PREDESTINATOR
PREDES'TINATOR, noun Properly, one that foreordains.1. One that holds to predestination.
PREDESTINE
PREDES'TINE, verb transitive To decree beforehand; to foreordain.And bid predestined empires rise and fall.
PREDETERMINATE
PREDETERM'INATE, adjective Determined beforehand; as the predeterminate counsel of God.
PREDETERMINATION
PREDETERMINA'TION, noun [See Predetermine.]1. Previous determination; purpose formed beforehand; as the predetermination of God's will.2. Premotion; that concurrence of God whic...
PREDETERMINE
PREDETERM'INE, verb transitive [pre and determine.]1. To determine beforehand; to settle in purpose or counsel.If God foresees events, he must have predetermined them.2. To doom...
PREDIAL
PRE'DIAL, adjective [Latin proedium, a farm or estate.]1. Consisting of land or farms; real estate.2. Attached to land or farms; as predial slaves.3. Growing or issuing from lan...
PREDICABILITY
PREDICABIL'ITY, noun [from predicable.] The quality of being predicable, or capable of being affirmed of something, or attributed to something.
PREDICABLE
PRED'ICABLE, adjective [Latin proedicabilis, from proedico, to affirm; proe and dico, to say.] That may be affirmed of something; that may be attributed to. Animal is predicable...
PREDICAMENT
PREDIC'AMENT, noun [Latin proedicamentum, from proedico, to affirm.]1. In logic, a category; a series or order of all the predicates or attributes contained under any genus. The...
PREDICAMENTAL
PREDICAMENT'AL, adjective Pertaining to a predicament.
PREDICANT
PRED'ICANT, noun [Latin proedicans, proedico.]One that affirms any thing.
PREDICATE
PRED'ICATE, verb transitive [Latin proedico; proe and dico, to say.]To affirm one thing of another; as, to predicate whiteness of snow. Reason may be predicated of man.PRED'ICAT...
PREDICATION
PREDICA'TION, noun [Latin proedicatio.] Affirmation of something, or the act of affirming one thing of another.
PREDICATORY
PRED'ICATORY, adjective Affirmative; positive.
PREDICT
PREDICT', verb transitive [Latin proedictus, proedico; proe, before, and dico, to tell.] To foretell; to tell beforehand something that is to happen. Moses predicted the dispers...
PREDICTED
PREDICT'ED, participle passive Foretold; told before the event.
PREDICTING
PREDICT'ING, participle present tense Foretelling.