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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of anticipate.

Etymologies

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anticipate + -est

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Examples

  • 'Thou anticipatest rightly, and that as physicians reckon is a sign that nature is set working, and is throwing off the disease.

    The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1896

  • And when thy new customer drinketh his whiskey with thee, anticipatest thou that some day soon the vast thirsty

    Tiger-lilies 1867

  • And when thy new customer drinketh his whiskey with thee, anticipatest thou that some day soon the vast thirsty Cyclops-shadow of eternity shall stoop and drink down the sea of time at a swallow?

    Tiger-Lilies. A Novel. 1867

  • ‘Thou anticipatest rightly, and that as physicians reckon is a sign that nature is set working, and is throwing off the disease.

    Consolation of Philosophy 2007

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