"foredetermine" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1847, The National preacher, volumes 21-22",
          "text": "The relations of life act as bribes to bias his judgment and foredetermine his verdict.",
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          "ref": "1864, Bibliotheca sacra and theological review, volume 21",
          "text": "The answer made to this is, in effect, that although the will is in such a sense a power of contrary choice or self- determination that God cannot foredetermine its action without restraint upon this power and destruction of its freedom [...]",
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          "ref": "1986, Daniel A. Helminiak, The same Jesus: a contemporary Christology",
          "text": "This is not to say that one has access to an eternal blueprint or that one is merely going along with some foredetermined cosmic plan.",
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          "ref": "2004, Paul Carus, Martin Verhoven, The gospel of Buddha according to old records",
          "text": "But more to the point was Peirce's observation that Carus's reconciliation of religion and science constituted \"an endeavor to reach a foredetermined conclusion.\"",
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          "ref": "2007, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Horatius Bonar, God's Will, Man's Will and Free Will",
          "text": "If God plans, foredetermines and predestinates each and every deed of a man's life, powerfully controlling all circumstances, all persons, even all forces of whatever variety and magnitude that affects his life, can that man be truly free?",
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        "To determine beforehand; predetermine."
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        "(transitive) To determine beforehand; predetermine."
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