单词 | prenatalist |
释义 | prenatalistn.adj. A. n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > doctrine > doctrine concerning the Trinity > [noun] > concerning Christ, the Son > believer in pre- or post-natal divinity of Christ Postnatalist1895 prenatalist1895 1895 Haweis in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 599 The Prenatalists admit human parentage on one side only. 2. A person who believes that the prenatal period is important in shaping the future behaviour, characteristics, etc., of a child; (also) a person who specializes in prenatal care. ΚΠ 1924 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 30 148 The prenatalists further point out that, though emotional outbursts have ever been common among pregnant women, the conditions of modern life..are responsible for an even greater emotional activity among certain types of women today. 1986 Associated Press (Nexis) 2 July Jiggs, who arrived at the Denver Zoo last week, is named after R.A. ‘Jiggs’ Nelson, the pre-natalist at Wichita's Sedgwick County Zoo. B. adj. ΚΠ 1895 Haweis in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 604 The Prenatalist and Postnatalist theories. 2. Of, relating to, or designating a prenatalist or prenatalists (sense A. 2). ΚΠ 1999 I. Tyrrell Deadly Enemies 57 Prenatalist concerns about smoking's impact on the foetus. 2001 TR: A Good Day at Indian in rec.climbing (Usenet newsgroup) 9 Oct. Them prenatalist docs are a bunch of anal retentives anyhow. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1895 |
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