Meanings of anticipator in English

I will disappear, I the forerunner, I the anticipator, I the martyred prophet.

And, in fine, Doré must be regarded as an anticipator of the Entente cordiale.

Carver's guts tightened as his system flooded with cortisol, the stress hormone, the anticipator of pain and bringer of fear.

Dowd, ever the anticipator, had already mixed him a whisky and soda, but he forsook it for fear it would loosen his tongue.

Richard Trevethick, the anticipator of many things, also took out a patent in 1815, and in it he describes the screw propeller with considerable minuteness.

Here we would seem to have a clear conception of the idea of universal gravitation, and Anaxagoras stands before us as the anticipator of Newton.

The withered and the aged mistake their failing forces for calmness and resignation, and an apathy, the drear anticipator of death, for presence of mind.

His predecessors had been, in his phrase, not interpreters, but anticipators of nature.

But ever since the failed D.C. zeppelin attack, security anticipators are taking them all seriously, kicking their prefrontals into overdrive.

Mechanics, therefore, have always been, as far as the range of their humble but useful callings extended, not anticipators but interpreters of nature.