I.a. [id.], to perform the office of a midwife (eccl. Lat.), Tert. ad Nat. 2, 12: “Hebraeas (sc. mulieres),” to assist in childbirth, Vulg. Exod. 1, 16: “obstetricandi scientia,” id. ib. 1, 19.—
B. Trop.: “poëtis obstetricantibus,” Tert. ad Nat. 2, 2.