preordained
simple past tense and past participle of preordain
preordained (not comparable)
determined in advance; predestined
Source: Wiktionary
Pre`or*dain", v. t. Etym: [Pref. pre + ordain: cf. L. praeordinare.]
Definition: To ordain or appoint beforehand: to predetermine: to foreordain. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 November 2024
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
