obstetricate

obstetric +‎ -ate

obstetricate (third-person singular simple present obstetricates, present participle obstetricating, simple past and past participle obstetricated)

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.

obstētrīcāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of obstētrīcō