Bible Dictionaries
Predestination

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The purpose of Good from eternity respecting all events; especially, the preordination of men to everlasting happiness or misery. See Calvinism.

(2):

(n.) The act of predestinating.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Predestination'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/predestination.html. 1828.