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anticiper (s.xiii3/4)
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anticiper (s.xiii3/4)

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  FEW:  anticipare 24,654a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  anticiper 8,131b TL: ∅ DEAF:  anticiper  DMF:  anticiper  TLF:  anticiper  OED:  anticipate v.  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  anticipare 94c

v.trans.

1to anticipate, act in advance of the proper time: 
( 1338 )  Ceo ne covient ja, q’il prent de vostre conscience demene, et si vous eiez anticipé vostre temps, ad il mester de conustre le fait?  YBB 11-12 Ed III 431
( 1340 )  Et tout eit Court anticipé temps sur lui, il ne poet de ceo aver avantage  YBB 14 Ed III 251
2fig.to catch up with: 
( s.xiii3/4; MS: c.1275 )  E ense [sic] persequirent Abraham nostre pere, quant il fu pelerins, […] e ensi feseyent en lur poer a tuz lé pelerins. E le ire Nostre Seygnur les anticipa a la parfin (Latin: Venit autem ira Domini super eos in finem)  Suidas 618
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