Predaceous, prē-dā′shus, adj. living by prey: predatory.—adj. Pred′able, raptorial.—n. Predā′cean, a carnivorous animal.—adj. Prē′dal, pertaining to prey: plundering.—n. Predā′tion, the act of plundering.—adv. Pred′atorily, plunderingly.—n. Pred′atoriness, inclination to plunder.—adj. Pred′atory, plundering: characterised by plundering: living by plunder: ravenous. [L. præda, booty.]
Predate, prē-dāt′, v.t. to date before the true date: to date by anticipation: to be earlier than.
Predecease, prē-dē-sēs′, n. decease or death before some one or something else.—v.t. to die before.
Predecessor, prē-dē-ses′or, n. one who has been before another in any office.—v.t. Predecess′ (rare), to precede.—adj. Predeces′sive. [L. præ, before, decessor, a retiring officer, decedĕre, decessum, to withdraw—de, away, cedĕre.]
Predeclare, prē-dē-klār′, v.t. to declare beforehand.
Predefine, prē-dē-fīn′, v.t. to define beforehand.—n. Predefini′tion.
Predelineation, prē-dē-lin-ē-ā′shun, n. the old theory which supposed the whole body to be predelineated in little in the spermatozoon.
Predella, prē-del′a, n. the gradino, the step or ledge sometimes seen at the back of an altar, also the frieze along the bottom of an altar-piece. [It.]
Predesign, prē-dē-zīn′, v.t. to design beforehand.—v.t. Predes′ignate, to determine upon in advance.—adj. designated in advance: (logic) having the quantification of the predicate distinctly expressed (Sir W. Hamilton).—n. Predesignā′tion.—adj. Predes′ignātory.
Predestine, prē-des′tin, v.t. to destine or decree beforehand: to foreordain.—adj. Predestinā′rian, pertaining to predestination.—n. one who holds the doctrine of predestination.—n. Predestinā′rianism.—v.t. Predes′tinate, to determine beforehand: to preordain by an unchangeable purpose.—adj. fore-ordained: fated.—n. Predestinā′tion, act of predestinating: (theol.) the doctrine that God has from all eternity unalterably fixed whatever is to happen, esp. the eternal happiness or misery of men.—n. Predestinā′tor, one who predestinates or foreordains: a predestinarian.