predestinate
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I have recently learned that I am But a creature that moves In predestinate grooves.
From Time Magazine Archive
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That none be saued, but they are before predestinate.
From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by David Laing
Byron, the predestinate wanderer, and Rousseau, who never found rest, who complained that his birth was but the beginning of his misfortunes, le premier de mes malheurs—these are types of the less fortunate class.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
“For whom he foreknew, them he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son.”
From The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted by F. (Francis) Hodgson
"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 Henry Drummond
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
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
It reads thus: “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.”
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Robert Wallace
She thanked and complimented him warmly, but without being very much astonished at his success, for she began to think he was predestinated.
From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Etienne Dinet
Betwixt themselves they speaks of it as a loan, but I thinks to myself that this probably is predestinated to be one of the most permanent loans in the history of the entire loaning business.
From J. Poindexter, Colored by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
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
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