Bible Dictionaries
Anticipate

1910 New Catholic Dictionary

(Latin: ante, before; capio, take)

To read the Divine Office, in private but not in choir, before the time usually assigned for it; e.g., to read Matins, which should be read before Mass, on the evening before, i.e.,after 2 p.m., and Vespers in Lent an hour before noon instead of afternoon.

Bibliography Information
Entry for 'Anticipate'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ncd/​a/anticipate.html. 1910.