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predestinate

[pri-des-tuh-neyt, pri-des-tuh-nit, -neyt] / 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

"It's said there's ane predestinate To be his mortal foe, But that man is yet unborn, And lang may it be so."

From The Scottish Fairy Book by Elizabeth Wilson Grierson

The hour draws nigh Of life or death predestinate.

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Henry Spalding

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

Article Third runs thus, “The predestinate are a predeterminate and certain number, which can neither be lessened nor increased.”

From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Robert Wallace

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

John having predestinated the "young man," he gave an apoplectic snort, relapsed into his lethargy, and the servant whirled down into the rotunda, and informed the "young man" what the gentleman desired.

From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge

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

This mingling predestinated him to that eternal discontent of certain great natures who can just as little accustom themselves, on the earth, to a condition of bloodless asceticism as to one of mindless materialism.

From Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso by Ossip Schubin

Those angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed; and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.

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

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



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