Citations:fætal

Adjective: hypercorrect form of fetal

 * 1876, unknown, The Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Magazine, page #159:
 * one of a man of about sixty years, one of a young woman under twenty, one of a child about seven, and three infants of less than two years, the youngest, perhaps, fætal.
 * 1880, Charles Cowley, Browne’s Divorce and its Consequences, page #24:
 * Mr. Browne wanted no children; neither did his wife, who cherished, to the fullest extent, the miserable unwillingness to propagate the human species, which is so common in this age of fætal murder.
 * 1899, M. Jacques Boyer quoted in The Popular Science Monthly, page #693:
 * Most of the variations reveal themselves in the embryo during the fætal period.