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predestinate

[pri-des-tuh-neyt, pri-des-tuh-nit, -neyt] / prɪˈdɛs təˌneɪt, prɪˈdɛs tə nɪt, -ˌneɪt /


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

From Time Magazine Archive

The original for predestinate, proorizo, is used in only one place, so far as I can find, with any direct reference to a sinful act, Acts iv, 28.

From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Fisk, Wilbur

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

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

"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

And right now no one seems to posses the same sense of predestinated greatness that accompanied Warne, Murali and Tendulkar.

From The Guardian Apr. 5, 2011

Those lovers of God thus predestinated are invited to heavenly bliss, and will be ultimately justified before the world, and glorified.

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

Good-by, therefore, to poor Canova—whose gallery no longer needs detain his successor100 Jules, the predestinated novel thinker in marble! 5th Student.

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.”—Eph. i.

From The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted by Hodgson, F. (Francis)

John having predestinated the "young man," he gave an apoplectic snort, relapsed into his lethargy, and the servant whirled down into the rotunda, and informed the "young man" what the gentleman desired.

From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge

His existence appears as fashioned in essence and end by predestinating power, and the Eternal "takes the responsibility."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various

Within it by Thy predestinating knowledge and might, He had set forth all that is essential and obligatory for the upraising of Thy Cause in this world below.

From Bahíyyih Khánum by Baha'i World Centre



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