Word Meanings - PREORDINATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of foreordaining: previous determination. "The preordination of God." Bale.
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- PREDETERMINATION
The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will. Hammond. - ELECTIONEERER
One who electioneers. - ELECTIONEER
To make interest for a candidate at an election; to use arts for securing the election of a candidate. A master of the whole art of electioneering. Macaulay. - NECESSITY
The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism. Of necessity, by necessary consequence; by compulsion, or irresistible power; perforce. Syn. - ELECTION
Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism. There is a remnant according to the election of grace. Rom. xi. 5. (more info) 1. The act of choosing; choice; selection. - FOREDOOM
To doom beforehand; to predestinate. Thou art foredomed to view the Stygian state. Dryden. - PREORDINATION
The act of foreordaining: previous determination. "The preordination of God." Bale. - PREDESTINATION
The purpose of Good from eternity respecting all events; especially, the preordination of men to everlasting happiness or misery. See Calvinism. (more info) 1. The act of predestinating. Predestination had overruled their will. Milton. - PRELECTION
A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company. "The prelections of Faber." Sir M. Hale. - REELECTION
Election a second time, or anew; as, the reƫlection of a former chief. - NONNECESSITY
Absence of necessity; the quality or state of being unnecessary. - PREELECTION
Election beforehand. - SELECTION
The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference. 2. That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books. Natural selection. See under Natural. - BY-ELECTION
An election held by itself, not at the time of a general election. - UNNECESSITY
The state of being unnecessary; something unnecessary. - NONELECTION
Failure of election.