expectative (ekspektativ)

and n. [= F. expectative = Sp. Pg. expectativa = It. espetta tiva, n., Expectative graces or mandates nominating a person to succeed to a benefice. Robertson. 2. Eccles., pertaining to an expectative. See II., 2. II. n. 1. That which is expected; something in expectation. Though ble edne seem to be but an expectative , a reversion reserved to the next life, yet so ble ed are they in this testimony of a rectified conscience, which is this purity of heart, as that they have this ble edne in a present po e ion. Donne , Sermons, x. Specifically-2. In the Rom. Cath. Ch., the right to be collated in the future to a benefice not vacant when the right is granted. Expectatives were either papal, granted by a mandate of the pope, or royal, granted by a mandate of the temporal sovereign. Hence, the mandate so given is sometimes in correctly called an expectative. The right was abolished by the Council of Trent in the sixteenth century, except in a few specified cases. Also called expectance, expect an cy, and, when the benefice was specified, a survivorship. The king conferred upon him as many ecclesiastical preferments.. as he could be legally po e ed of, as supports of his state and dignity, while this great expectative was depending. Bp. Lowth, Wykeham, p. 34. Before his return, Ximenes obtained a papal bull, or who has not yet received a license to preach. No expectant shall be permitted to preach in publike before a congregation till first he be tryed after the same Act of A embly of Glasgow, Aug. 7, 1641. manner. expectantly (eks-pek'tant-li), adv. In an expectant manner; with expectation. As it was, she listened expectantly. George Eliot , Mill on the Flo , I. 357.