predestinate
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I have recently learned that I am But a creature that moves In predestinate grooves.
From Time Magazine Archive
I will be partaker of that which Fortune shall prepare, vntill the heauens doe mitigate their rage vpon you, and your predestinate mishap.”
From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter
"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 Auguston Filon
See also Rom. viii, 29, “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son,” and “whom he did predestinate —he called—justified—and sanctified.”
From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk
And so the pleasant facile days went by in idly roving, idly writing, meeting interrogatively his predestinate experience and setting the more presentable answers down.
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins
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
VIII, 29: “Whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son.”
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss
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
Anyhow, if I'm predestinated to be lost in New York City it's better I should be lost amongst my own kind, which talks my native language, rather than amongst plumb strangers.
From J. Poindexter, Colored by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his own will.”—Eph. i.
From The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted by F. (Francis) Hodgson
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
