PREORDAINS Synonyms

• a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge)

• issue a decree

• decide with authority

• appointed but not yet installed in office

• assign a name or title to

• give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)

• indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively

• decree or designate beforehand

• design or destine

• decree or designate beforehand

• design or destine

• establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study

• shape or influence; give direction to

• fix conclusively or authoritatively

• decide upon or fix definitely

• reach, make, or come to a decision about something

• fix in scope; fix the boundaries of

• settle conclusively; come to terms

• find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort

• compel to behave in a certain way

• impose something unpleasant

• impose and collect

• order by virtue of superior authority; decree

• appoint to a clerical posts

• invest with ministerial or priestly authority

• issue an order

• determine beforehand

• cause to be biased

• foreordain by divine will or decree

• foreordain or determine beforehand

• decree or determine beforehand

• foreordain by divine will or decree

• foreordain or determine beforehand

• determine beforehand

• cause to be biased