Prede (?), v. i. [L. praedari. See Prey.] To prey; to plunder. [Obs.]
Holinshed.
Prede, n. Prey; plunder; booty. [Obs.] Holinshed.
Pre"de*cay` (?), n. Premature decay.
Pre`de*cease (?), v. t. To die sooner than. "If children predecease
progenitors." Shak.
Pre"de*cease` (?), n. The death of one person or thing before another.
[R.] Brougham.
Pred`e*ces"sive (?), a. Going before; preceding. "Our predecessive
students." Massinger.
Pred`e*ces"sor (?; 277), n. [L. praedecessor; prae before + decessor
one who withdraws from the province he has governed, a retiring officer
(with reference to his successor), a predecessor, fr. decedere: cf. F.
prÈdÈcesseur. See Decease.] One who precedes; one who has preceded
another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows
or comes after, in any office or position.
A prince who was as watchful as his predecessor had been over the
interests of the state.
Prescott.
Pre`de*clare" (?), v. t. To declare or announce beforehand; to
preannounce. Milman.
Pre*ded`i*ca"tion (?), n. A dedication made previously or beforehand.
Pre`de*fine (?), v. t. To define beforehand.
Pre`de*lib`er*a"tion, n. Previous deliberation.
Pre`de*lin`e*a"tion, n. Previous delineation.
||Pre*del"la (?), n. [It.] The step, or raised secondary part, of an
||altar; a superaltar; hence, in Italian painting, a band or frieze of
||several pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming
||a border or frame at the foot of an altarpiece.
Pre`de*sign" (?), v. t. To design or purpose beforehand; to
predetermine. Mitford.
Pre*des"ig*nate (?), a. (Logic) A term used by Sir William Hamilton to
define propositions having their quantity indicated by a verbal sign;
as, all, none, etc.; -- contrasted with preindesignate, defining
propositions of which the quantity is not so indicated.
Pre*des`ti*na"ri*an (?), a. Of or pertaining to predestination; as, the
predestinarian controversy. Waterland.
Pre*des`ti*na"ri*an, n. One who believes in or supports the doctrine of
predestination. Dr. H. More.
Pre*des`ti*na"ri*an*ism (?), n. The system or doctrine of the
predestinarians.
Pre*des"ti*na*ry (?), a. Predestinarian. [Obs.] Heylin.
Pre*des"ti*nate (?), a. [L. praedestinatus, p. p. of praedestinare to
predestine; prae before + destinare to determine. See Destine.]
Predestinated; foreordained; fated. "A predestinate scratched face."
Shak.
Pre*des"ti*nate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Predestinated (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Predestinating.] [Cf. Predestine.] To predetermine or
foreordain; to appoint or ordain beforehand by an unchangeable purpose
or decree; to preÎlect.
Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to
the image of his Son.
Rom. viii. 29.
Syn. -- To predetermine; foreordain; preordain; decree; predestine;
foredoom.
Pre*des`ti*na"tion (?), n. [L. praedestinatio: cf. F. prÈdestination.]
1. The act of predestinating.
Predestination had overruled their will.
Milton.
2. (Theol.) The purpose of Good from eternity respecting all events;
especially, the preordination of men to everlasting happiness or
misery. See Calvinism.
Pre*des"ti*na*tive (?), a. Determining beforehand; predestinating. [R.]
Coleridge.
Pre*des"ti*na`tor (?), n. [Cf. F. prÈdestinateur.] 1. One who
predestinates, or foreordains.
2. One who holds to the doctrine of predestination; a predestinarian.
Cowley.
Pre*des"tine (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Predestined (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Predestining.] [Cf. F. prÈdestiner. See Predestinate.] To decree
beforehand; to foreordain; to predestinate. Young.