predestinate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Byron, the predestinate wanderer, and Rousseau, who never found rest, who complained that his birth was but the beginning of his misfortunes, le premier de mes malheurs—these are types of the less fortunate class.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various

Supposing, after all, there is no predestinate engineer!

From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

I looked into their faces, grown at once grave and predestinate; the shadow was there, a cloud upon their brows, a veil across the brightness of their eyes.

From Lawrence Clavering by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

“Whom He did foreknow He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son.”

From Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois by Cavins, Elmer W.