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Ordained vs Predestinated - What's the difference?

ordained | predestinated |

As verbs the difference between ordained and predestinated

is that ordained is (ordain) while predestinated is (predestinate).

As an adjective ordained

is established by authority.

ordained

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Established by authority.
  • Admitted to the ministry of the church.
    • There was much pomp at the ceremony that made him an ordained minister.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (ordain)

    • predestinated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (predestinate)

    • predestinate

    English

    Verb

    (predestinat)
  • To predestine.
    • Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son. — Rom. viii. 29.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Predestinated, preordained.
  • * 1599 ,
    • God keep your ladyship still in that mind;so some gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate scratched face.
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