predestinate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"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

Perhaps what I have called coldness is a predestinate and ancient endurance.

From George Bernard Shaw by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

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

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