obstetricate

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English

Etymology

obstetric +‎ -ate

Verb

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  1. (obsolete) To assist in the manner or as if in the manner of a midwife.
    • 1986, John McPhee, Heirs of General Practice:
      Whatever its effect on the soldiers, Paul's sermon on Areopagus has not been forgotten in Mars Hill, Maine, where the town's other doctor wears a cross in his lapel and has personally been obstetricated twice
    • Evelyn
      Nature does obstetricate.

Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) obstetrīcāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of obstetrīcō