an-tic-i-pate / an-ˈti-sə-ˌpāt
verb to expect or wait for excitedly The trick to happiness wasn’t in freezing every momentary pleasure and clinging to each one, but in ensuring one’s life would produce many future moments to anticipate. from ‘Oathbringer’ by Brandon Sanderson, 1975- to foresee Anticipate the good so that you may enjoy it. Ethiopian Proverb to do preemptively Anticipate charity by preventing poverty. Maimonides, 1135-1204 to answer or complete before a request is made The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882 to counter before an action occurs Ho Shih puts this very clearly in his note: “When the enemy has made a plan of attack against us, we must anticipate him by delivering our own attack first.” from ‘The Art of War: A New Translation by Michael Nylan [1950-]’ by Sun Tzu, 540 BC-470 BC