predetermine
verbUK /ˌpɹiː.dɪˈtɜː.mɪn/ · US /ˌpɹiːdɪˈtɝ.mɪn/
Etymology From Latin praedēterminō; equivalent to pre- + determine.
1
To determine or decide in advance.
- God's Counsel doth not predetermine the Will to any evil1688, Matthew Hale, A Discourse of the Knowledge of God and of Ourselves:
- That original list of 2,315 solutions was embedded in the game’s code. That means the game was playable offline and could be downloaded onto phones or computers. The solutions to the original Wordle game were predetermined through October 20, 2027. The New York Times (NYT) hasn’t said if it plans to make any more changes or additions to that initial list.2022 February 15, David Goldman, “Why your Wordle answers might now be different than your friends’”, in CNN Business:
2
To doom by previous decree; to foredoom.
- Synonyms
- foredetermine, preplan, designate
- Derived terms
- predeterminism
- Related terms
- predetermined