predestinate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"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

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

That none be saued, but they are before predestinate.

From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Laing, David

"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