predestinate
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I have recently learned that I am But a creature that moves In predestinate grooves.
From Time Magazine Archive
That none be saued, but they are before predestinate.
From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by David Laing
"God keep your ladyship still in that mind," retorts Benedick, "so some gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate scratched face."
From Garrick's Pupil by Auguston Filon
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
Wherefore one ought not to say that God is able not to predestinate one whom He has predestinated, taking it in a composite sense, thought, absolutely speaking, God can predestinate or not.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
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
The chief man of the church was found, upon closer acquaintance, to be the subject of a profound conviction that he was the individual predestinated to superintend our farming interests.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various
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
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
God has predestinated us that we should be holy, and, moreover, that we should be spiritually holy.
From The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained by E. H. (Ezra Hall) Gillett
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
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
