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(obsolete) To assist in the manner or as if in the manner of a midwife..
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
Use obstetricate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Obstetricate means (obsolete) To assist in the manner or as if in the manner of a midwife..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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; [...]
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