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Anticipate

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ANTIC'IPATE, L. anticipo, of ante, before, and capio, to take.

1. To take or act, before another, so as to prevent him to take first possession.
2. To take before the proper time as, the advocate has anticipated that part of his argument.
3. To foretaste or foresee to have a previous view or impression of something future as, to anticipate the pleasures of an entertainment to anticipate the evils of life.
4. To prevent by crowding in before to preclude.

This sense is essentially included in the first.

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Entry for 'Anticipate'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​a/anticipate.html.
 
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