predestinate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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)

Byron, the predestinate wanderer, and Rousseau, who never found rest, who complained that his birth was but the beginning of his misfortunes, le premier de mes malheurs—these are types of the less fortunate class.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various

Long ere I made thee, I the predestinate, Before thou wert born I thee endued with grace.

From "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays by Rhys, Ernest

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