foredestined

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She might have posed as she stood against the marble railing—and especially in that gesture of lifting her arms—for a bearer of the gift at some foredestined luckless ceremony of votive offerings.

From The Guest of Quesnay by Tarkington, Booth

And can no wiser Law revoke The Edict that foredestined me to Smoke, My stump to be a Byword and a Jest?

From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Irwin, Wallace