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anticipant, a. and n.|ænˈtɪsɪpənt|
[ad. L. anticipānt-em, pr. pple. of anticipā-re (see anticipate a.); or a. its Fr. repr. anticipant.]
A. adj.
1. Operating in advance, prevenient, ‘preventing.’
1626Donne Serm. lxvii. 675 a, By antecedent and anticipant without concomitant and auxiliant grace. c1828Southey Life & Corr. (1850) V. 364 It was not forged by unseen hands, Anticipant of Jove's commands. 1854B. Taylor Poems of Orient 171 Exercising power anticipant.
2. Apprehending beforehand, looking forward, expectant.
1798Southey Rose Wks. VI. 107 The first pangs Of wakening guilt, anticipant of Hell. 1825― in Q. Rev. XXXII. 386 His mind..was retrospective rather than anticipant.
B. n. One who anticipates; an anticipator.
1854B. Taylor L'Envoi in Poems of Orient (1866) 396 The sweet anticipant of dawn. 1877M. Arnold Gipsy Child Poems I. 55 O meek anticipant of that sure pain. |