a. [f. ANTICIPATOR + -Y: see -ORY.] Of or pertaining to an anticipator; of the nature of anticipation.

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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.

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1855.  H. Spencer, Psychol. (1872), I. III. iv. 315. Nascent vision … amounts at first to little more than anticipatory touch.

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1874.  H. Reynolds, John Bapt., iii. § 3. 216. Anticipatory of a wider diffusion of the Holy Spirit.

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