To shut out by anticipative action; to prevent or hinder by necessary consequence or implication; to deter action of, access to, employment of, etc.
During the next few days the village was in a state of anticipative pleasure and of effort to find for the rummage-sale articles which were damaged or useless.
A good hard gallop would have cured her anticipative homesickness, for it must be a very black care indeed that keeps its seat behind the rider.
Yet every insurance policy, every taking out of an umbrella, every buying of a wedding ring, is an anticipative consequence.
Much sport has been made of this doctrine of anticipative consequences.
He experienced remorse in the presence of inanimate things he was going to leave as if they had sensibly reproached him, and an anticipative homesickness that seemed to stop his heart.
He seemed to be lying in wait for some encroachment of the literary department on the art department, and he met it now and then with anticipative reprisal.
It must have been that which he came to see me about last night," he said, with a sort of anticipative remorse.
Besides, he was afraid that his courage might have broken down a little by that time, and that he would not be able to conceal entirely theanticipative dread, whose inroad he had reason to apprehend.
There was a note of anticipative defiance in the young voice as she spoke.
This was peculiarly the appanage of youth, being the anticipative melancholy, the pensive foreboding, distilled from the blighted hopes of former generations of youth.
He had left his seal-oil lamp burning and now it was with an anticipative chuckle of joy that he untied the drawstring.
She marked the eagerly anticipative solicitude of the boyish groom, contrasting it now and then with Ormsby's less obtrusive attentions.
The train reported--he took it as a special miracle wrought in his behalf that the Flyer was for this once abreast of her schedule--he fell to tramping up and down the long platform, deep in anticipative prefigurings.
We may announce that which has occurred or that which is to occur, tho the word is chiefly used in the anticipative sense; we announce a book when it is in press, a guest when he arrives.
That's what you've got to blow to call us in," exclaimed a small child, with anticipative enlivenment.
But had Pierre now reread the opening paragraph of her letter to him, he might have very quickly derived a powerful anticipative objection from his sister, which his own complete disinterestedness concealed from him.
These two last phases are included in what is known among Scientists as the Anticipative or Hypothetical Method; while the three phases are commonly undiscriminated and collectively termed the Deductive Method.
We have seen the historical results of this mode of procedure in what is denominated the Anticipative or Hypothetical Method.
The Inductive Method is, therefore, almost identical in its mode of procedure with one of the processes anciently adopted for the acquisition of knowledge under the Anticipative or Hypothetical Method.
The famed Inductive Method, like the Anticipative or Hypothetical, furnishes, in truth, only an assumption as a starting point for reasoning in the endeavor to establish other Facts than those already known.
