- the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance.
- the assigning of a person, event, etc., to a period earlier than the actual one; the representation of something in the future as if it already existed or had occurred; prochronism.
- the use of a descriptive word in anticipation of its becoming applicable.
- a fundamental conception or assumption in Epicureanism or Stoicism arising spontaneously in the mind without conscious reflection; thought provoked by sense perception.
- the return of an attack of a periodic disease or of a paroxysm before the expected time or at progressively shorter intervals.
- a rhetorical device by which objections are anticipated and answered in advance
- use of a word after a verb in anticipation of its becoming applicable through the action of the verb, as flat in hammer it flat
