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Definition of Midwived
1. midwife [v] - See also: midwife
Lexicographical Neighbors of Midwived
Literary usage of Midwived
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks by Thomas Brooks, Alexander Balloch Grosart (1866)
"Sin is that grand evil that has midwived all other evils into the world. It was
sin that drowned the old world with water ; it was sin that destroyed Sodom ..."
2. Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: From by John Campbell Campbell (1880)
"... sir, with a spurious brat, which being clandestinely midwived into the world,
the better to cover the imposture they lay it at your Majesty's door. ..."
3. The History of Henry Fielding by Wilbur Lucius Cross (1918)
"midwived into the World by your all-auspicious Hand, and proclaimed by them to
be the goodest Book that was ever read. "While it was yet in Embrio, ..."
4. The Library of American Biography by Jared Sparks (1847)
"... nor to any uncommon skill in predicting a crisis; much less to tell when it
begins to be nascent, or is fairly midwived into the world. ..."
5. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... the intercourse of the blood with the heart should bo impeded ; which hole is
yet afterwards precluded, when the infant is midwived into a new world. ..."
6. Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Biographical by John Nichols, Samuel Bentley (1812)
"Who begat, or who midwived, or who nursed Methodism, is a point I shall leave to
the determination of others. Mr. Wesley's own account of this, ..."
7. The John Watts DePeyster Publication Fund Series by New-York Historical Society (1868)
"But when this Libel was so midwived to the Press by the Kings Collector (who was
likewise one of the Council) and this foresworn Sheriff. Then Coll. ..."
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