pre-, prae-

1. To foreordain by divine decree or purpose.
2. To foreordain; to predetermine; to decide in advance.
3. In some religious beliefs, decided and decreed in advance by God, a deity, or fate.

1. In theology, being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with John Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind).
2. In some religious beliefs, the doctrine that God, a deity, or fate has established in advance everything that is going to happen and that nothing can change this.
3. A previous determination as if by destiny or fate.

1. The act of determining or ordaining in advance what is to take place.
2. Previous determination; purpose formed beforehand; as the predetermination of God's will.

1. To decide, to agree, or to arrange something in advance.
2. To settle or to decide in advance.
3. To determine, to decide, or to decree beforehand.

1. One of the five most general relations of attributes involved in Aristotelian logical arrangements, namely: genus, species, difference, property, and accident.
2. That which can be stated or that can be said about someone or something.
3. A quality or attribute by which someone or something can be described.

1. State of being; condition, situation, position; especially, an unpleasant, trying, or dangerous situation.
2. Implies a complicated, perplexing situation from which it is difficult to disentangle oneself.

1. The statement made about a subject, including the logical copula (which in a verb is expressed by the personal suffix).

Sometimes restricted to the main verb and its object or complement, to the exclusion of any adjunct. Also in logic and math; frequently in a wider use, an assertion or relation having one or more terms unspecified.

2. An appellation or title that asserts something.
3. To assert, affirm; to make a statement.
4. To state or assert (something) about the subject of a proposition; also, to make (a term) the predicate in a proposition.

Someone who or that which predicates (a word or combination of words, including the verb, objects, or phrases governed by the verb that make up one of the two main parts of a sentence).

1. To foretell, to prophesy, or to announce beforehand (an event, etc.).
2. To utter a prediction; to prophesy.
3. To state what one believes will happen; such as, to foretell a future event or events.

1. Happening or turning out in the way that might have been expected or predicted.
2. Rarely or never behaving or happening in an unusual or unexpected way.
3. Acting or happening in a way that is expected.

1. In a predictable manner or to a predictable degree.
1. Descriptive terms: to presage, to divine, to augur, to project, to prognosticate, to portend.

1. The action of predicting or foretelling future events; also, an instance of this, a prophecy.
2. A statement made beforehand.

Someone who (or that which) predicts or foretells.

The partial artificial digestion of food before its ingestion.