predestinate
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I have recently learned that I am But a creature that moves In predestinate grooves.
From Time Magazine Archive
"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
Defining the church as the body of the predestinate, and starting a campaign against indulgences, Huss soon fell under the ban of his superiors.
From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved
Supposing, after all, there is no predestinate engineer!
From Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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 Wallace, Robert
