Verb

(anticipat)

To act before (someone), especially to prevent an 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. -- .

to take up or introduce (something) prematurely.

The advocate plans to anticipate a part of her argument.

to know of (something) before it happens; to expect.

to anticipate the pleasures of a visit

to anticipate the evils of life

Please anticipate a journey of an hour from your house to the airport

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, title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=31 citation , passage=The task was more to Appleby's liking than the one he had anticipated , and it was necessary, since the smaller merchants in Cuba and also in parts of Peninsular Spain have no great confidence in bankers, and prefer a packet of golden onzas or a bag of pesetas to the best accredited cheque.}}

* {{quote-news, year=2011

, date=October 2 , author=Jonathan Jurejko , title=Bolton 1 - 5 Chelsea , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=And with Bolton suffering a wretched run of five straight home defeats - their worst run in 109 years - Chelsea fans would have been forgiven for expecting a comfortable win.
But surely they did not anticipate the ease with which their team raced into an almost impregnable half-time lead.}}

to eagerly wait for (something)

Little Johnny started to anticipate the arrival of Santa Claus a week before Christmas.

Verb

(es)

(senseid) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.

* Nathaniel Hawthorne

some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials

* De Quincey

laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail

(transitive, business, obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).

To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly.

* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :

After which time the Popes of Rome, engrossing what they pleas'd of Politicall rule into their owne hands, extended their dominion over mens eyes, as they had before over their judgements, burning and prohibiting to be read, what they fancied not

* 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, pp. 125-6:

Octavian then engrosses for himself proconsular powers for ten years in all the provinces where more than one legion was stationed, giving him effective control of the army.

To completely engage the attention of.

She seems to be''' completely '''engrossed in that book.

(obsolete) To thicken; to condense.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:

As, when a foggy mist hath overcast / The face of heven, and the cleare ayre engroste , / The world in darkenes dwels

To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.

* Spenser

waves engrossed with mud

* Shakespeare

not sleeping, to engross his idle body

(obsolete) To amass.

* Shakespeare

to engross up glorious deeds on my behalf