foredestined

There rose the morn—though flecked with fire and blood— The morn benign of human brotherhood, Foredestined to a passing cloud's eclipse.

America, says Lippmann, is a continental island in the great oceanic basin of the Atlantic and the Pacific, and hence is foredestined to try to prevent the establishment of an aggressively expanding empire in either sea.

The Grotto water is foredestined to be drunk and to be washed in.

It is many a long year since my dear friend Messer Guido dei Cavalcanti died of that disastrous exile to which, by the cynical irony of fate, my other dear friend, Messer Dante dei Alighieri, was foredestined to doom him.

But in Rome there were the conditions favourable to its development—imperfect culture, vehement passions unabsorbed by commerce or by political life, the habituation to extravagant excitement in war and in the circus, and the fermentation of an age foredestined to give birth to new religious creeds.