predestinate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Robins, Elizabeth

I had found my predestinate, Become a faithful wife and e'en A fond and careful mother been.

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Spalding, Henry

The two halves of their nature are so completely joined that they seem to labour for their objects, and yet to desire whatever happens, being at the same instant predestinate and free, creation’s very self.

From The Trembling of the Veil by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

The original for predestinate, proorizo, is used in only one place, so far as I can find, with any direct reference to a sinful act, Acts iv, 28.

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