predestinate
Example Sentences
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I have recently learned that I am But a creature that moves In predestinate grooves.
From Time Magazine Archive
The two halves of their nature are so completely joined that they seem to labour for their objects, and yet to desire whatever happens, being at the same instant predestinate and free, creation’s very self.
From The Trembling of the Veil by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
A rarer, more intense, more strictly predestinate genius has never been known to poetry.
From The Hound of Heaven by Thompson, Francis
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 Wallace, Robert
Long ere I made thee, I the predestinate, Before thou wert born I thee endued with grace.
From "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays by Rhys, Ernest
