obstetricate
English
Etymology
Verb
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- (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