predestinate
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I have recently learned that I am But a creature that moves In predestinate grooves.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
Long ere I made thee, I the predestinate, Before thou wert born I thee endued with grace.
From "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays by Ernest Rhys
Article Third runs thus, “The predestinate are a predeterminate and certain number, which can neither be lessened nor increased.”
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Robert Wallace
Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.”
From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Albert Taylor Bledsoe
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 predestinated that we should be like him.
From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr
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 James Freeman Clarke
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.”—Eph. i.
From The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted by F. (Francis) Hodgson
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
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