obstē̆trīco(opst-), āre, v. n. and 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.