predestinate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The original for predestinate, proorizo, is used in only one place, so far as I can find, with any direct reference to a sinful act, Acts iv, 28.

From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Fisk, Wilbur

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)

Moreover, whom He did predestinate, them He also called; and whom He called, them He also justified; and whom He justified, them He also glorified.”

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

A rarer, more intense, more strictly predestinate genius has never been known to poetry.

From The Hound of Heaven by Thompson, Francis