a. [f. ANTICIPATOR + -Y: see -ORY.] Of or pertaining to an anticipator; of the nature of anticipation.
1669. H. More, Exp. 7 Epist., Pref. (T.). But Prophecy being an anticipatorie History, it is sufficient that it speak according to the usual language of Historians.
1855. H. Spencer, Psychol. (1872), I. III. iv. 315. Nascent vision amounts at first to little more than anticipatory touch.
1874. H. Reynolds, John Bapt., iii. § 3. 216. Anticipatory of a wider diffusion of the Holy Spirit.