predestinate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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)

Indeed, to give such a meaning to the word predestinate, is at once to take away the principal scriptures quoted by the reviewer, and others, to prove Calvinistic election.

From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Fisk, Wilbur

"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 The Ordinance of Covenanting by Cunningham, John

"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