predestinate

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The hour draws nigh Of life or death predestinate.

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

Byron, the predestinate wanderer, and Rousseau, who never found rest, who complained that his birth was but the beginning of his misfortunes, le premier de mes malheurs—these are types of the less fortunate class.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various

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

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 Bledsoe, Albert Taylor