It is all anticipatory of 'good things to come,' and of a Person who will bring them.
A correspondent wishes for farther information on the anticipatory worship of the cross in Mexico and at Alexandria.
Observation proved that such was the case and the directive in question was none other than an imitation in miniature, or rather a movement anticipatory of the expected head-movement of the horse.
I have come to be, I am afraid, even a little insensitive to fine immediate things through this anticipatory habit.
Which is anticipatory vengeance: as soon as I'm called, and in practice, they'll be active enough in shunning me.
Kant defines an act of volition as an act which is determined by the anticipatory idea of the result of the act.
The picturesque touch furnished by supplying a policeman suggested the Vose-Mern "anticipatory system" and appealed to the chief's grim sense of humor.
A Hypothesis is the result of a peculiar mental process which seems to act in the direction of making a sudden anticipatory leap toward a theory, after the mind has been saturated with a great body of particular facts.
When Newton saw the apple fall, the anticipatory question flashed through his mind, 'Why do not the heavenly bodies fall like this apple?
Luckock, Intermediate State, 20--"May the parable of the rich man and Lazarus be an anticipatory picture of the final state?
Like Baptism, which points forward to the resurrection, the Lord's Supper is anticipatory also.
And then we were taken into the clean, barely furnished drawing-room of the convento, where an anticipatory refreshment was served, the while we were regaled with a history of Cebu's famous image.
Was the author making ananticipatory hit at Mr Lauder?
No sooner had we arrived in my aunt's dark hall than we saw in the gloom, beneath the frills of a snowy cap as stiff and fragile as if it had been made of spun sugar, the concentric waves of a smile of anticipatory gratitude.
The early stages must have been anticipatory of the later ones, but exercise could have had nothing to do with the result from first to last.
Yet this, I think, was all I felt at the moment: a perfectly natural anticipatory excitement, a stirring wonder, and behind them both a hint of shrinking that was faint uneasiness.
It bore a Swiss stamp; and the handwriting caused me a thrill of anticipatoryexcitement even before I had consciously recalled the name of the writer.
Edwin Booth was announced as "the opening attraction of the New Opera House" and I fairly trembled with anticipatory delight, for to me the word Booth meant all that was splendid and tragic and glorious in the drama.
All my life I had longed to ride on a Mississippi steamboat, and now, as I waited on the wharf at the very instant of the fulfillment of my desire, I expanded with anticipatory satisfaction.
Furthermore, when we examine the anticipatory aspect of ideas, the presence of imagery both with reference to outcome and to conditions is so evident that its presence will scarcely be denied.
It is not an anticipatory vision of the final goal of life, but the agent's coming to consciousness of the general impulse and movement of the life that is.
He was as carefully dressed as usual, but on his face, and in his eyes particularly, was an expression of satisfaction and anticipatory triumph which was too obvious to escape the notice of but very few.
Stafford, his heart beating with anticipatory triumph; for he knew that the woman who hesitates is gained.
It is a very imperfect kind of vision, and acts more as a general sense of illumination, and as an anticipatory sense.
Francis laid down the letter with a pleased anticipatory chuckle, and it was the touch in the final sentence that amused him.
We had ordered that dinner in anticipatorydetail many a time together.
He approached the great granite monolith with a curious thrill of anticipatory excitement, born he knew not whence.
Anticipatory enjoyment, meanwhile, lightened his heart; he did his daily work more competently, the spell of the ancient city weakened somewhat.
Meanwhile, he recapitulated the scene in the concert hall, from the few anticipatory moments, when the 'cellist related amatory adventures, to the abrupt leave he had taken of Dove at the door of the building.
He hesitated long before he fixed upon the candidates for that body, which inspired him with an anticipatory fear.
From the details I have already given respecting Bonaparte's plans for colonising Egypt, it will be seen that his energy of mind urged him to adopt anticipatory measures for the accomplishment of objects which were never realised.
