predestinate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

“For whom he foreknew, them he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son.”

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

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

I had found my predestinate, Become a faithful wife and e'en A fond and careful mother been.

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

I will be partaker of that which Fortune shall prepare, vntill the heauens doe mitigate their rage vpon you, and your predestinate mishap.”

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by Painter, William