predestinate

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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

God has predestinated us that we should be holy, and, moreover, that we should be spiritually holy.

From The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained by Gillett, E. H. (Ezra Hall)

“He hath predestinated us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ unto himself.”

From The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted by Hodgson, F. (Francis)

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 Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed, and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman