predestinate
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I have recently learned that I am But a creature that moves In predestinate grooves.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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 A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor
"It's said there's ane predestinate To be his mortal foe, But that man is yet unborn, And lang may it be so."
From The Scottish Fairy Book by Grierson, Elizabeth Wilson
Perhaps what I have called coldness is a predestinate and ancient endurance.
From George Bernard Shaw by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.