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Anticipating; expectant; -- with of. Wakening guilt, anticipant of hell. Southey.

before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action. To anticipate and prevent the duke's purpose. R. Hall. He would probably have died by the hand of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not been anticipated by the populace. Macaulay.

The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order. So shall my anticipation prevent your discovery. Shak.

Anticipating, or containing anticipation. "Anticipative of the feast to come." Cary. -- An*tic"i*pa*tive*ly, adv.

One who anticipates.

Forecasting; of the nature of anticipation. Owen. Here is an anticipatory glance of what was to be. J. C. Shairp.

Opposed to citizenship.

Opposition to the body politic of citizens. [Obs.] Carlyle.

Having to opposite curvatures, that is, curved longitudinally in one direction and transversely in the opposite direction, as the surface of a saddle.

fect. Example: Next comes Dalhousie, the great god of war, Lieutenant-colonel to the Earl ANTICLINAL An`ti*cli"nal, a. Etym: [Pref. anti- + Gr.

The crest or line in which strata slope or dip in opposite directions.

ocks in which the beds on both sides of an axis or axial plane dip away from the axis; an anticlinal.

The upward elevation of the crust of the earth, resulting from a geanticlinal.

Oddly; grotesquely.

The quality of being antic. Ford.

The electric waves falling on this contrivance increase its resistance several times. The anticoherer can be used in conjunction with a telephone.

Opposed to the constitution; unconstitutional.

Opposing or destroying contagion.

Good against convulsions. J. Floyer.

A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart.