different between prophesy vs anticipate

English

Etymology

From Middle English prophecien; partly from prophecie, and partly from Middle French prophecier, prophesier, from prophecie (“prophecy”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??f?sa?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p??f?sa?/

Verb

prophesy (third-person singular simple present prophesies, present participle prophesying, simple past and past participle prophesied)

1. To speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet. [from 14th c.]
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Joel 2:28,^[1]

     And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

   • 1648, Robert Herrick, “Not every day fit for Verse” in Hesperides, London: John Williams & Francis Eglesfield, p. 285,^[2]

     ’Tis not ev’ry day, that I

     Fitted am to prophesie:

     No, but when the Spirit fils

     The fantastick Pannicles:

     Full of fier; then I write

     As the Godhead doth indite.

   • 1958, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, Oxford: Heinemann, 1996, Part One, Chapter Eleven, p. 70,^[3]

     […] at that very moment a loud and high-pitched voice broke the outer silence of the night. It was Chielo, the priestess of Agbala, prophesying. There was nothing new in that. Once in a while Chielo was possessed by the spirit of her god and she began to prophesy.

2. To predict, to foretell (with or without divine inspiration). [from 14th c.]
   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act V, Scene 1,^[4]

     Then I perceive that will be verified

     Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy

     ‘If once he come to be a cardinal,

     He’ll make his cap co-equal with the crown.’

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, 1 Kings 22:8,^[5]

     He doth not prophesy good concerning me.

   • 1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton, Chapter 5,^[6]

     People prophesied a long continuance to this already lengthened frost; said the spring would be very late; no spring fashions required; no summer clothing purchased for a short uncertain summer.

   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 745:

     ‘It has been prophesied more than once that he will find it.’

3. To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act V, Scene 3,^[7]

     Methought thy very gait did prophesy

     A royal nobleness. I must embrace thee.

4. (intransitive, Christianity) To speak out on the Bible as an expression of holy inspiration; to preach. [from 14th c.]
   • 1646, Jeremy Taylor, Of the Liberty of Prophesying, Section 4, in Treatises of 1. The liberty of prophesying, 2. Prayer ex tempore, 3. Episcopacie: together with a sermon, London: R. Royston, 1648, p. 73,^[8]

     […] if we consider that we have no certain wayes of determining places of difficulty and Question, infallibly and certainly […] we shall see a very great necessity in allowing a liberty in Prophesying without prescribing authoritatively to other mens consciences, and becomming Lords and Masters of their Faith.

Related terms

• prophecy
• prophesier
• prophesize (nonstandard)
• prophet
• prophetic
• prophetize

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin anticip?tus, perfect passive participle of anticip?re (“anticipate”); from ante (“before”), + capere (“take”). See capable.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /æn?t?s.?.pe?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /æn?t?s.?.pe?t/

Verb

anticipate (third-person singular simple present anticipates, present participle anticipating, simple past and past participle anticipated)

1. (transitive) To act before (someone), especially to prevent an action.
   • c. 1824 (written, published in 1891) Robert Hall, Fragment on Popery

     When two parties, each formidable for their numbers, and the weight of their influence and property, are animated by an equal degree of zeal, it is natural to anticipate the final success of that which possesses the most inherent strength.

   Synonym: preclude

2. to take up or introduce (something) prematurely.

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

   Synonyms: expect, foretaste, foresee

4. to eagerly wait for (something)

   Synonym: look forward to

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".

Related terms

• anticipation
• anticipatory

Translations

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /antit?si?pate/

Verb

anticipate

1. present adverbial passive participle of anticipi

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /antit?si?pate/

Verb

anticipate

1. adverbial present passive participle of anticipar

Italian

Verb

anticipate

1. second-person plural present indicative of anticipare
2. second-person plural imperative of anticipare
3. feminine plural of anticipato

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /an.ti.ki?pa?.te/, [än?t??k??pä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /an.ti.t??i?pa.te/, [?n?t?it??i?p??t??]

Verb

anticip?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of anticip?