predestinate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

And so the pleasant facile days went by in idly roving, idly writing, meeting interrogatively his predestinate experience and setting the more presentable answers down.

From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Robins, Elizabeth

"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

"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

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)