expectative, a. and n.
(ɛkˈspɛktətɪv)
[ad. late L. ex(s)pectātīvus, f. ex(s)pectāre to expect.]
1. Of or pertaining to expectation. a. Canon law. Reversionary; of or pertaining to the reversion of benefices, etc. expectative grace: a mandate given by the pope or king conferring the expectation or right of succession to a benefice.
| 1488 Sc. Acts Jas. IV (1814) 210 Quhat tym it be declarit that ony persone or personis be gracis expectativis [printed expectavis] acceptis or purchessis ony beneficez [etc.]. 1560 J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 366 a, Bishops of Rome..by reseruations and graces expectatiue..haue deriued all the gaine to Rome. 1619 T. Mason Christ's Vict. 148 Expectatiue Aduousons are graunted without number. 1751 Chambers Cycl., Expectative Canons were such as did not officiate in the Canonries to which they belonged. Ibid., In France..the right of conferring expectative graces, is looked on as one of the regalia. 1769 Robertson Chas. V, II. ii. 112 Expectative graces..were brought into use. |
† b. gen. Of prospective effect. Obs.
| 1630 S. Ward in Ussher's Lett. (1686) 440 Ablution of infants from original sin is only conditional and expectative. 1653 H. Whistler Upshot Inf. Baptism 17 The Covenant of baptism holding out such expectative grace of Repentance. |
2. Characterized by waiting for events; = expectant A. 1, 1 b.
| 1611 Cotgr., Expectatif, -ive, expectative. 1689 G. Harvey Curing Dis. by Expect. xxiii. 206 To give you an instance of its expectative mode of curing. 1847 in Craig. 1870 Daily News 11 Oct., ‘We are preserving’, they say, ‘a dignified expectative attitude’. |
B. n.
† 1. Something in expectation; an expectancy; = expectation 6. Obs.
| a 1528 Skelton Image Hypocr. Wks. II. 343 His expectatives Many a man unthrives. 1618 Wotton Let. in Reliq. Wotton. (1672) 486, I am abundantly satisfied in some Expectatives. a 1631 Donne Serm. xii. 119 Though Blessednesse seem to be but an Expectative, a reversion reserved to the next Life. 1758 Chesterfield Lett. IV. 137 He is young enough to forgive and to be forgiven the possession and the expectative at least for some years. |
2. = expectative grace (see A. 1).
| 1563–87 Foxe A. & M. (1596) 4/1 The.. reservations, expectatives, and such other proceedings of the popes pretended jurisdiction. 1616 N. Brent tr. Sarpi's Hist. Counc. Trent (1676) 714 Expectatives..did make the incumbents death to be desired. 1725 tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 17th C. I. ii. iii. 47 The Council of Basle..abolish'd the Expectatives..and all the other exactions of the Court of Rome. 1818 Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) II. 213 Gregory IX pretended to act generously in limiting himself to a single expectative. 1838 Prescott Ferd. & Is. II. 475 Ximenes obtained a papal bull, or expectative, preferring him to the first benefice..which should become vacant. |