Also -er. [a. L. anticipātor, n. of agent f. anticipāre: see ANTICIPATE and -OR.] One who anticipates.
1598. Florio, Preuentore, a preuentor, an ouertaker, an anticipator.
1753. Richardson, Grandison (1810), VI. xli. 271. He is such an anticipater, that he leaves not to me the merit of obliging him beyond his expectation.
1808. Ld. Grenville, in Dk. Buckhm., Crt. Geo. III., IV. 284. The most confident anticipator of Bonaparte’s downfall.
