predestinate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From The Hound of Heaven by Thompson, Francis

"For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate."

From Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others by Pringle, Allen

But the human will does not exist in the abstract world of reasoned science, in the world of atoms and vibrations, that rigidly predestinate scheme of things in space and time.

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

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

From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Drummond, Henry