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

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

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

I will be partaker of that which Fortune shall prepare, vntill the heauens doe mitigate their rage vpon you, and your predestinate mishap.”

From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by Painter, William