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Meaning of obstetricate | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To assist in the manner or as if in the manner of a midwife.

obsolete

Examples

“Some adviſe us to break the ſhells of Pines to facilitate their delivery, and I have eſſay'd it; but to my loſs; Nature does obſtetricate, and do that office of her ſelf when it is the beſt ſeaſon; [...]”
“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”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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