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Anticipate vs Expediate - What's the difference?

anticipate | expediate |

As verbs the difference between anticipate and expediate

is that anticipate is to act before (someone), especially to prevent an action while expediate is or expediate can be (rare|historical) to injure (a dog) by cutting away the pads of the forefeet, thereby preventing it from hunting.

As an adjective expediate is

(obsolete) expeditious.

anticipate

English

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
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , 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.

    Usage notes

    The words anticipate'' and ''expect'' both regard some future event as likely to take place. Nowadays they are often used interchangeably although ''anticipate is associated with acting because of an expectation. (E.g. skilled sportsmen anticipate the action and position themselves accordingly.)

    Synonyms

    * (to act before someone) preclude * (to take up or introduce something prematurely) * (to know of something before it manifests) expect, foretaste, foresee * (to eagerly await something) look forward to

    Related terms

    * anticipation

    expediate

    English

    Etymology 1

    See expedite, expeditious.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) expeditious

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) , thus "freeing the feet".

    Verb

    (expediat)
  • (rare, historical) To injure (a dog) by cutting away the pads of the forefeet, thereby preventing it from hunting.
  • * 1803 , William Taplin, The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository of General Information Upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field , Vernor and Hood, page 236,
    • EXPEDIATE'—is a term tran?mitted from one book to another by former writers, but is at pre?ent little u?ed in either theory or practice. It implies the cutting out the centrical ball of the foot of a dog, or ?uch claws as ?hall totally prevent his pur?uit of game. In earlier times, when the forest laws were more rigidly enforced, the owner of any dog not ' expediated , living within the di?tric?t, was liable to a fine for non-obedience.
  • * 1814 , Elizabeth Ogborne, The History of : From the Earliest Period to the Present Time , page 73,
    • Among other liberties, they were permitted to assart their lands in and many other places, and enclose them with a ditch and low hedge, that they might take of their woods at pleasure; to have the forfeiture of their own men; to hunt the fox, hare, and cat, in the forest; that their dogs should not be expediated †.
    † Expediating' dogs, according to the forest laws, signifies to cut out the ball of dogs' fore-feet; the mastiff is to have only the three claws of the fore-foot, on the right side, cut off next the skin, for the preservation of the king's game. Every one that keeps any great dog, not ' expediated , forfeits 3s. 4d. to the king.
  • * 1903 , William D. Drury, British Dogs, Their Points, Selection, and Show Preparation , C. Scribner's sons, page 16,
    • The statute, which prohibited all but a few privileged individuals from keeping Greyhounds or Spaniels, provided that farmers and substantial freeholders dwelling within the forests might keep Mastiffs for the defence of their houses within the same, provided such Mastiffs be expediated' according to the laws of the forest. This “' expediating ,” “hambling,” or “lawing,” as it was indifferently termed, was intended to maim the dog as to reduce to a minimum the chances of his chasing and seizing the deer, and the law enforced its being done after the following manner: “Three claws of the fore foot shall be cut off by the skin, by setting one of his fore feet upon a piece of wood 8 inches thick and 1 foot square, and with a mallet, setting a chisel of 2 inches broad upon the three claws of his fore feet, and at one blow cutting them clean off.”

    References

    * OED 2nd edition 1989