predestinate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

"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

This idea, moreover, accords with the Scriptures:—“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son.”

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

Article Third runs thus, “The predestinate are a predeterminate and certain number, which can neither be lessened nor increased.”

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