foreordinance

Maugrabin enchanter sent Alaeddin down into the vault, he gave him a ring and put it on his finger, saying, "This ring will deliver thee from all stress, an thou be in calamities or vicissitudes, and will remove from thee troubles; yea, it will be thy helper whereassoever thou art;" and this was by the foreordinance of God the Most High, so it might be the means of Alaeddin's deliverance.

Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp John Payne 1879

But to come to the second reason, whereanent it more instantly behoveth to show you that he hath been wiser than yourselves, since meseemeth you reck nothing of the foreordinance of the Gods and know yet less of the effects of friendship: -- I say, then, that you of your judgment, of your counsel and of your deliberation, gave Sophronia to Gisippus, a young man and

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344