Word Meanings - OBSTETRICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of assisting as a midwife; delivery. Bp. Hall.

Related words: (words related to OBSTETRICATION)

• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• ASSISTANCE
  1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
• ASSIST
  To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak. Syn. -- To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See Help.
• ASSISTER
  An assistant; a helper.
• ASSISTLESS
  Without aid or help. Pope.
• ASSISTOR
  A assister.
• MIDWIFE
  A woman who assists other women in childbirth; a female practitioner of the obstetric art.
• ASSISTIVE
  Lending aid, helping.
• ASSISTANT
  Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon. Note: In the English army it designates the third grade in any particular branch of the staff. Farrow. (more info) 1. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. Genius and
• MIDWIFERY
  1. The art or practice of assisting women in childbirth; obstetrics. 2. Assistance at childbirth; help or coöperation in production.
• DELIVERY
  1. The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon. 2. The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of
• ASSISTFUL
  Helpful.
• REDELIVERY
  1. Act of delivering back. 2. A second or new delivery or liberation.
• NONDELIVERY
  A neglect or failure of delivery; omission of delivery.