obstetricate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

OBSTET'RICATE, verb intransitive [See Obstetric.] To perform the office of a midwife. [Little used.] OBSTET'RICATE, verb transitive To assist as a midwife. [Little used.]
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