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Anticipated   /æntˈɪsəpˌeɪtəd/  /æntˈɪsəpˌeɪtɪd/   Listen
adjective
anticipated  adj.  
1.
Expected; opposite of unanticipated and unexpected.
Synonyms: awaited(predicate), hoped-for, prospective
2.
Rightfully expected.
Synonyms: looked-for(prenominal).





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"Anticipated" Quotes from Famous Books



... it would appear that the philosophy of the Tao-te-king is that of absolute being, or the identity of being and not-being. In this point it anticipated Hegel by twenty-three centuries.[18] It teaches that the absolute is the source of being and of not-being. Being is essence, not-being is existence. The first is the noumenal, the ...
— Ten Great Religions - An Essay in Comparative Theology • James Freeman Clarke
... home a great quantity of booty, with which he had expected to awaken Daphne's admiration, and to lay as a token of homage at her feet. He had intended to lead before her garlanded slaves bearing, tied by ropes, bunches of slaughtered wild fowl, but his reception was very different from what he had anticipated. ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... accordingly rang his bell to know what was the matter, when he was informed by the steward that the weather looked considerably better, and that the men upon deck were endeavouring to ship the smoke-funnel of the galley that the people might get some meat. This was a more favourable account than had been anticipated. During the last twenty-one hours he himself had not only had nothing to eat, but he had almost never passed a thought on the subject. Upon the mention of a change of weather, he sent the steward to learn how the artificers felt, and on his return he stated ...
— Records of a Family of Engineers • Robert Louis Stevenson
... the arms of Grace, and kissed her with effusion; and John saw the sisterly union, which he had anticipated, ...
— Pink and White Tyranny - A Society Novel • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... accompanied by a forest guard to put them on the track of the gang. This led up towards the Bhutan Frontier, which runs among the hills at an average elevation of six thousand feet above the sea. As the Assistant Political Officer anticipated, the party had headed for the portion of the border under the control of the Amban's friend, the Penlop of Tuna. Enquiries among the inhabitants of the mountain villages resulted in several of them coming forward with the information that they had seen a small body of armed Chinese ...
— The Jungle Girl • Gordon Casserly


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