predestinate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The hour draws nigh Of life or death predestinate.

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Spalding, Henry

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

"God keep your ladyship still in that mind," retorts Benedick, "so some gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate scratched face."

From Garrick's Pupil by Filon, Auguston

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)