predestinate

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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)

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

Perhaps what I have called coldness is a predestinate and ancient endurance.

From George Bernard Shaw by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

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