1. group of Baptist congregations believing the teachings of the French theologian John Calvin who believed in strict predetermination. 施洗者圣会团体，信仰法国神学家约翰加尔文的教义，他相信严格预言学说。
2. Most studies of the relationship between culture, economics and politics underline their malleability and lack of rigid predetermination: Lucian Pye's views were at one end of the spectrum. 许多有关文化、经济和政治相互关系的研究都在强调这种关系的可塑性，并且不认为存在这种刚性的预先决定的事情。白鲁恂的观点是非常极端的。
3. Through the literature analysis and practical research, this dissertation advances that predetermination and generation of the curriculum objective is two sides of it supplement each other. 本文通过文献分析和实践研究，提出预设与生成是课程目标相辅相成的两极。
英英解释
n.
1. (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) tha
2. the act of determining or ordaining in advance what is to take place
