predestinate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

“Whom He did foreknow He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son.”

From Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois by Cavins, Elmer W.

"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 Grierson, Elizabeth Wilson

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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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

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