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ANTENICENE

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in ecclesiastical writers, denotes a thing or person prior to the first council of Nice. We say the Antenicene faith, Antenicene creeds, Antenicene fathers.

ANTENNÆ, in the history of insects, slender bodies with which nature has furnished the heads of these creatures, being the same with what in English are called horns or feelers. See Entomology Index.