adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] By way of anticipation.
1864. Daily Tel., 12 April, 3/5. Attired in that simple and becoming costume with which all London had become anticipatively familiar, the General is handed into his carriage.
1865. C. Stanford, Symb. Christ, xii. 348. His language was fitted to be the vehicle for holding anticipatively the complete knowledge of a later age.
