predestinate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

"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

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

From The Hound of Heaven by Thompson, Francis

"God keep your ladyship still in that mind," retorts Benedick, "so some gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate scratched face."

From Garrick's Pupil by Filon, Auguston