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

"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

Defining the church as the body of the predestinate, and starting a campaign against indulgences, Huss soon fell under the ban of his superiors.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved

Article Third runs thus, “The predestinate are a predeterminate and certain number, which can neither be lessened nor increased.”

From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert