predestinate
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I have recently learned that I am But a creature that moves In predestinate grooves.
From Time Magazine Archive
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren.
From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Albert Taylor Bledsoe
"It's said there's ane predestinate To be his mortal foe, But that man is yet unborn, And lang may it be so."
From The Scottish Fairy Book by Elizabeth Wilson Grierson
But the human will does not exist in the abstract world of reasoned science, in the world of atoms and vibrations, that rigidly predestinate scheme of things in space and time.
From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Perhaps what I have called coldness is a predestinate and ancient endurance.
From George Bernard Shaw by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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
“He hath predestinated us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ unto himself.”
From The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted by F. (Francis) Hodgson
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
I wonder whether such demons ever enter into human beings, and, in the shape of living men, haunt, plague, and ruin their predestinated victims.”
From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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
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
