predestinate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"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

I had found my predestinate, Become a faithful wife and e'en A fond and careful mother been.

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Spalding, Henry

A rarer, more intense, more strictly predestinate genius has never been known to poetry.

From The Hound of Heaven by Thompson, Francis

"Whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified."

From The Ordinance of Covenanting by Cunningham, John