If the variations of the pigeon, which under artificial selection give the pouter pigeon, are not preordained for the sake of the breeder, by what logic do we argue that variations resulting in natural species are pre-designed?
It seems the normal thing, the inevitable, preordained way for men to come into power, but, that being the case, they ought to take it a little more quietly.
It would have seemed to the human understanding the preordained moment to span the decades between this day and that long-ago parting in my childhood.
But these tendencies are as little matter of observation as the aforesaid latent potentialities or preordained ends.
The Calvinist God preordained salvation only for the elect and damnation and everlasting punishment for the rest of humanity, but the Puritans had an optimism about avoiding this damnation.
He believed that military success was a reflection of divine favor and he regarded himself as one the few elect preordained for salvation.
Where and how far I had wandered I could not imagine- -but presently, regaining nerve and courage, I began to fancy that perhaps my strange experience had beenpreordained and planned as some test of my faith and fortitude.
Nothing existed to terrify or daunt the advancing Soul which had become cognisant of its own capabilities, and which, by the very laws governing it, is preordained to rise to the utmost height of supernal power.
Is it not strange that even the eager spirit, craving for its preordained mate, is subject to error?
Now she was content to be told that, on the whole, she was preordained to be happy.
It was preordained that you should play with that kitten for a moment in eternity and that for a fraction of a moment you should hide the reel.
Perhaps it was preordained for the strengthening of your faith," my uncle answered, with a smile.
I wasn't going to lie down and die as long as there was preordained work to do.
But the punishments and rewards of the future life are not publicly manifested to all, but to those specially who are preordained thereto by God.
And the same holds good of all things foreknown and preordained by God, as was laid down in the First Part (Q.
But he said: The God of our fathers hath preordained thee that thou shouldst know his will and see the Just One and shouldst hear the voice from his mouth.
That is, God hath preordained that all his elect should be conformable to the image of his Son.
Not to all the people, but to witnessespreordained by God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him, after he arose again from the dead.
The anthropocentric dogma culminates in the idea that man is the preordainedcentre and aim of all terrestrial life--or, in a wider sense, of the whole universe.
If not, why should we believe that the variations of domestic animals or plants are preordained for the sake of the breeder?
However, that which waspreordained hath come to pass.
Both these heritages were preordained for grand service in an epoch when war should gnash loud her iron fangs, and shake her crest of bristling bayonets.
By whatever special means these plans were to be accomplished was left to the decision of the hour; the advance to the frontiers alone was preordained in every detail.
The point is that certain tones do indeed seem to be "preordained to congruity," preordained either in their physical constitution or their physiological relations, and not to have achieved congruity by use or custom.
And this is true whether the preordained end in the mind of the delinquent follow or do not follow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preordained" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
