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  • 61destine — Synonyms and related words: aim, aim at, allocate, allot, appoint, appropriate to, aspire after, aspire to, assign, assign to, be after, design, designate, desire, destinate, detail, determine, devote, doom, drive at, earmark, fate, foredoom,… …

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  • 62determine — Synonyms and related words: abort, act on, actuate, adjudge, advance, affect, afford proof of, aim, aim at, arbitrate, ascertain, aspire after, aspire to, assign, assure, be after, be informed, become acquainted with, bend, bias, bound, bring,… …

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  • 63fate — Synonyms and related words: Friday, Friday the thirteenth, Heaven, Paradise, Z, a better place, accidentality, act of God, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, afterlife, afterworld, allocate, allot, allotment, allowance, apodosis, appoint,… …

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  • 64predetermine — Synonyms and related words: be predisposed, calculate, destine, determine, fate, forejudge, foreordain, forethink, go off half cocked, judge beforehand, jump the gun, plan, plot, preconceive, preconclude, preconsider, predecide, predestinate,… …

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  • 65forescéawian — wv/t2 to foreshow, foresee; preordain, decree, appoint; provide, furnish with …

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  • 66Qadarites — (qadariyya)    An early theological movement that upheld the centrality of human free will. The rubric qadariyya is notoriously misleading: it actually derives from the Arabic word qadar – ‘destiny’ or ‘divine predestination’ – and was generally… …

    Islamic philosophy dictionary

  • 67destiny — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Fate Nouns 1. destiny, future state, next world, world to come (see futurity). 2. fate, kismet, God s will, act of God, the will of God or Allah; Karma; doom, determinism, fatalism, predestination,… …

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  • 68fate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. destiny, lot, fortune, doom, predestination, chance. See necessity. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The predetermined course of events] Syn. destiny, fortune, destination, luck, predetermination,… …

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  • 69necessity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. need (see necessity); compulsion; poverty. II What must happen Nouns 1. necessity, necessitation, obligation, compulsion, subjection; needfulness, essentiality, indispensability; dire or cruel… …

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  • 70ordain — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. install, appoint, invest, frock; decree, [pre]destine. See clergy, commission. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To establish] Syn. install, institute, appoint; see enact . 2. [To destine] Syn. determine,… …

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