a. [f. ANTE- + L. nātāl-is pertaining to birth, NATAL.] Happening or existing before birth.
1817. Shelley, Pr. Athan., I. Memories of an antenatal life.
1848. Kingsley, Saint’s Trag., II. ix. 34. A heaven, my spirit’s antenatal home.
1879. Farrar, St. Paul, II. 242. The antenatal predilection for Israel and detestation of Esau.
