predestinate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

This idea, moreover, accords with the Scriptures:—“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son.”

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

Jude 4, has “before of old ordained,” &c, but it is in the original very different from the word rendered predestinate.

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

"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

The hour draws nigh Of life or death predestinate.

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