a. [f. L. anticipāt- (see ANTICIPATE) + -IVE, as if ad. L. *anticipātīvus.]
1. Having the faculty or habit of anticipating.
1559. Jewel, in 4 Cent. Eng. Lett., 55. They are a most anticipative race.
1797. Foster, Life & Corr. (1846), I. 188. Anticipative of its destiny.
1834. Lytton, Pompeii, 276. Anxious, fearful, anticipative, she resolved upon seizing the earliest opportunity.
2. Of the nature of anticipation.
1664. H. More, Myst. Iniq., 304. Prophecie being nothing else but an anticipative History.
1848. Mrs. Jameson, Sacr. & Leg. Art, 219. Mary Magdalene, with the anticipative glory round her head.
