to ordain, appoint, or decide something beforehand; to predestine.
From 'fore-' (before) and 'ordain' from Latin 'ordinare' (to order, arrange). Medieval theology heavily used this term for divine predestination.
This word packed philosophical weight—arguing whether God 'foreordains' events is central to theological debates about free will versus determinism that still matter today.
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