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Definition: Foreordination |
ForeordinationNoun1. (theology) the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "foreordination" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references) |
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Satire | FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider that pious and learned theologians have spent long lives in explaining it, and written libraries to explain their explanations; when I remember the nations have been divided and bloody battles caused by the difference between foreordination and predestination, and that millions of treasure have been expended in the effort to prove and disprove its compatibility with freedom of the will and the efficacy of prayer, praise, and a religious life, -- recalling these awful facts in the history of the word, I stand appalled before the mighty problem of its signification, abase my spiritual eyes, fearing to contemplate its portentous magnitude, reverently uncover and humbly refer it to His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons and His Grace Bishop Potter. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ForeordinationSynonyms: predestination (n), predetermination (n), preordination (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Necessity | Destiny, destination; fatality, fate, kismet, doom, foredoom, election, predestination; preordination, foreordination; lot fortune; fatalism; inevitableness; Adjective: spell. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Foreordination |
| Specialty definitions using "foreordination": FOREORDINATION ♦ INFALAPSARIAN ♦ Precipitate, Predestination. (references) |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to -- in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning. Infralapsarians are sometimes called Sublapsarians without material effect upon the importance and lucidity of their views about Adam. Two theologues once, as they wended their way To chapel, engaged in colloquial fray -- An earnest logomachy, bitter as gall, Concerning poor Adam and what made him fall. "'Twas Predestination," cried one -- "for the Lord Decreed he should fall of his own accord." "Not so -- 'twas Free will," the other maintained, "Which led him to choose what the Lord had ordained." So fierce and so fiery grew the debate That nothing but bloodshed their dudgeon could sate; So off flew their cassocks and caps to the ground And, moved by the spirit, their hands went round. Ere either had proved his theology right By winning, or even beginning, the fight, A gray old professor of Latin came by, A staff in his hand and a scowl in his eye, And learning the cause of their quarrel (for still As they clumsily sparred they disputed with skill Of foreordination freedom of will) Cried: "Sirrahs! this reasonless warfare compose: Atwixt ye's no difference worthy of blows. The sects ye belong to -- I'm ready to swear Ye wrongly interpret the names that they bear. You -- Infralapsarian son of a clown! -- Should only contend that Adam slipped down; While you -- you Supralapsarian pup! -- Should nothing aver but that Adam slipped up. It's all the same whether up or down You slip on a peel of banana brown. Even Adam analyzed not his blunder, But thought he had slipped on a peal of thunder! G.J. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "foreordination"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 前"召喚 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Fügung (acquiescence, chance, coincidence, construction, destiny, fate, fortune, luck, ordinance, stroke of fate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | προορισμόσ (bourn, destination, destiny, predestination, preordination, purpose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oreordinationfay nasip (grant, lot), kader (destiny, dispensation, doom, fatal, fatality, fate, fortune, karma, lot, Moira, predestination, Providence), kısmet (chance, destiny, fatality, fate, fortune, inning, innings, kismet, lot, Moira, portion, predestination, shot), alın yazısı (destiny, doom, fate, ordinance, predestination). (various references) sự định trước (predestermination), định mệnh sự bổ nhiệm trước. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "foreordination": foreordinations. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "foreordination" (pronounced 'Fore*or`di*na"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-i-i-n-n-o-o-o-r-r-t" | |
-4 letters: foreordain, inordinate, ordination. | |
-5 letters: afternoon, introfied, irridenta, nonrioter, rendition, torrified. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-i-i-n-n-o-o-o-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: foreordinations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 6F 72 65 6F 72 64 69 6E 61 74 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. --- .-. . --- .-. -.. .. -. .- - .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101111 01110010 01100101 01101111 01110010 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F o r e o r d i n a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 006F 0072 0065 006F 0072 0064 0069 006E 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4081847181847075806786758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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