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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Expectative \Ex*pect"a*tive\, a. [Cf. F. expectatif.] Constituting an object of expectation; contingent. {Expectative grace}, a mandate given by the pope or a prince appointing a successor to any benefice before it becomes vacant. --Foxe. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Expectative \Ex*pect"a*tive\, n. [F. expectative, fr. expectatif expectant.] Something in expectation; esp., an expectative grace. --Milman. | |
