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predestinate

[pri-des-tuh-nayt, pri-des-tuh-nit, -nayt] / prɪˈdɛs təˌneɪt, prɪˈdɛs tə nɪt, -ˌneɪt /


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I have recently learned that I am But a creature that moves In predestinate grooves.

From Time Magazine Archive

Indeed, to give such a meaning to the word predestinate, is at once to take away the principal scriptures quoted by the reviewer, and others, to prove Calvinistic election.

From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk

And so the pleasant facile days went by in idly roving, idly writing, meeting interrogatively his predestinate experience and setting the more presentable answers down.

From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins

I will be partaker of that which Fortune shall prepare, vntill the heauens doe mitigate their rage vpon you, and your predestinate mishap.”

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter

“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren.”

From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr

And right now no one seems to posses the same sense of predestinated greatness that accompanied Warne, Murali and Tendulkar.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 5, 2011

“He hath predestinated us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ unto himself.”

From The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted by F. (Francis) Hodgson

Good-by, therefore, to poor Canova—whose gallery no longer needs detain his successor100 Jules, the predestinated novel thinker in marble! 5th Student.

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Myra Reynolds

VIII, 29: “Whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son.”

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.”—Eph. i.

From The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted by F. (Francis) Hodgson

His existence appears as fashioned in essence and end by predestinating power, and the Eternal "takes the responsibility."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various

Within it by Thy predestinating knowledge and might, He had set forth all that is essential and obligatory for the upraising of Thy Cause in this world below.

From Bahíyyih Khánum by Baha'i World Centre


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