predestine

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Genes do not predestine one individual to complete fewer years of schooling than another or one individual to score higher on a cognitive performance test than another.

From Scientific American • May 26, 2022

The face is somewhat like that young prisoner's; the same mystical, prescient melancholy in the wide eyes, as if she realized she was predestine to work woe.

From At the Mercy of Tiberius by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)

"And what dost thou predestine to me?" inquired Vatinius.

From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah

For he who knowingly makes a thing and places it in circumstances the operation of which on that thing he is perfectly acquainted with, does predestine that thing to whatever fate may befall it.

From Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Huxley, Thomas H.

"But to whom dost Thou predestine the honor, holiness?"

From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Curtin, Jeremiah