predestinator

English

Etymology

Compare French prédestinateur.

Noun

predestinator (plural predestinators)

1. One who predestinates, or foreordains.
2. One who holds to the doctrine of predestination; a predestinarian.
   • a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, My Fate:

     Let all predestinators me produce , Who struggle with eternal bonds in vain

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “predestinator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)