antenatal (antenatal)

[L. ante, before, + natal is, pertaining to birth: see ante - and na tal.] Happening or being before birth; pertaining or relating to times, occurrences, or conditions previous to birth. 235 duct. They are homologous with the feelers of crusta antependium like appendages known as pedipalps. They are adapted antennate (an-ten'at), a. [ chelicera and scorpion . (c) In Insect a and Myriapod a , a horn or feeler; one of the pair of jointed situated between the mouth-parts and the eyes, though generally appearing in the adult between or before the eyes. These characteristic organs are usually filamentous with many articulations, and are very diverse in form; some of the terms used in describing their shapes are fil i- form, denticulate, bipinnate, clavate, geniculate. In Co- leoptera, divisions have been founded upon the shapes of the antennæ, as lamellicorn, clavicorn, longicorn, etc. These organs are almost universally present in some form or other, though occasionally rudimentary and inconspicu- ous, in which cases the insects are termed acerous , as dis- tinguished from dicerous . The parts of a well-formed antenna usually recognized are the pedicel, scape, and flagellum or claveola, the last usually composing most of the length of the organ. See Hymenoptera , Insect a. 2. An analogous organ on the heads of other animals, as a feeler or tentacle, like the eye- stalk of a snail.-3. pl . Projecting horns of iron or bronze found on some ancient helmets, per- haps serving only as ornaments, or as badges, or Shelley , Sensitive Plant, ii. in some cases to stop a blow from glancing down- And many an antenatal tomb Where butterflies dream of the life to come. Some said that he was mad; others believed That memories of an antenatal life Made this where now he dwelt a penal hell. Shelley, Prince Athanase, There has been plenty of theorising as to the nature of the life to come, but the po ibility of an antenatal existence gets far le attention and far le credit. Nineteenth Century , XX. 340. an ten at edt (an'tē-nā-ted), a. [L. ante nat us (see ante - nat i ) + -ed2.] Born or in existence before the time spoken of. Something of the Evangelical relish was in them, ante nated, and in being, before the Gospels were written. Bp. Hacket , Life of Abp. Williams, ii. 48. (N. E. D.) ante-nat i (an-tē-nāʼtī), n . pl . pl . [ML., in L. prop. written apart, ante nat i : ante , before; nat i , pl. of nat us , born, pp. of nasci , be born: see ante- , natal, and nascent.] Those born before a certain time: specifically, in Eng . law , applied to Scotsmen born before the acce ion of James I. to the English throne (1603), who on this account were considered aliens. The post - nat i , or those born after the acce ion, claimed the rights of natives of England. In the United States the term is ap of Independence. plied to those born in the colonies prior to the Declaration antenave (an'tē-nav), n. [ antenna (an-ten'ä), n.; pl. antenna (-e). [NL. application of L. antenna, also antemna, a sailyard; po ibly a corruption, through nautical use, of a form (cf. the perf. part. pa . ἀνατεταμέ νος, spread out) of Gr. ἀνατείνειν, poet. ἀντείνειν, stretch out, spread out, 2 7 3 6 Antennæ. 1, 1, filiform antennæ of cucujo firefly of Brazil (Pyrophorus luminosus); 2, denticulate antenna; 3, bipinnate; 4, lamellicorn; 5, clavate; 6, geniculate; 7, antenna and antennula of a crustacean. ward and striking the shoulder. - Decu ate, deflexed, deformed, etc., antennæ. See the adjectives. antennal (an-ten'al), a. [ Antennarius pictus.