Crossword-Solution: ANTEPENULTIMATE 15 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

Brown found a crab, (a species of Gecarcinus?) the carapace about an inch and a quarter long, and one and a half broad, the left claws much larger than the right, the antepenultimate joint having a strong tooth on the upper side; it is found in moist places and in the lagoons, and, when these are dried up, it retires under logs and large stones.

Thus, in order to give a few examples, the powerful chelæ of the antepenultimate pair of feet, of _Phromina sedentaria,_ are produced, according to Pagenstecher, from simple feet of ordinary structure; and _vice versà,_ the chelæ on the penultimate pair of feet of the young _Brachyscelus,_ become converted into simple feet.

Lambert whispered in his wife's ear at the close of the antepenultimate chapter, and the publication of which caused such great pleasure to the whole of the Oakhurst family.

Down to the days of Terence and probably somewhat later the old rule still held good of quadrisyllables with the scansion of _m[)u]l[)i][)e]r[)i]s_ or _m[)u]l[)i][)e]r[=e]s_, but in other words had given way to the later Quintilian rule, that all words with a long unit as penultimate had the stress on the vowel in that unit, while words of more than two syllables with a short penultimate had the stress on the antepenultimate.

This rule was among the first to break down, and about the middle of the nineteenth century the Westminster Play began to observe the true quantities in the antepenultimate syllables.