Predestine (verb)

To determine or establish in advance; to foreordain.

Origin:

From old french predestiner and directly from latin praedestinare ("to predestine"), from prae ("before") + destinare ("to establish, determine").

Examples:

1. God predestined that certain people would be saved and others would not.
2. The company's new product has been predestined to be a success.
3. The outcome of the game had been predestined long before it began.
4. He predestined his career path from an early age.
5. It was predestined that the war would end in a stalemate.