I. To take before one or before the time, to anticipate something.
a. With acc.: “vigilias,” Vulg. Psa. 76, 5: “nos,” ib. ib. 78, 8: “ita est informatum anticipatumque mentibus nostris, etc.,” already known, innate, Cic. N. D. 1, 27, 76 (cf. anticipatio; “B. and K. here reject anticipatumque): qui anticipes ejus rei molestiam, quam triduo sciturus sis,” id. Att. 8, 14: “anticipata via,” travelled over before, Ov. M. 3, 234: “mortem,” Suet. Tib. 61: “saeculares anticipati (i. e. justo maturius editi),” id. Claud. 21 al.—
b. With inf. (eccl. Lat.): “anticipemus facere pacem,” Vulg. 1 Macc. 10, 4.—
c. Absol., to anticipate: “sol Anticipat caelum radiis accendere temptans,” Lucr. 5, 658; Varr. ap. Non. p. 70, 13: “venti uno die anticipantes,” Plin. 2, 47, 47, § 122.—*
