Anticipo, antícipas, pen. cor. anticipâre. Cicer.To preuent: to take before.Anticipare mortem. Tranquillus. To preuent his death by punishment, with killing him selfe before.Anticipare vno die. Plin. To preuent one day.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
antĭ-cĭpo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [ante-capio]. 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.— II.To surpass, excel: alicujus acumen, Aus. Ep. 4, 69 (by conj. of Salmas.).